A key factor for the acceptance of robots as regular partners in human-centered environments is the appropriateness and predictability of their behaviors, which depend partially on the robot behavior's conformity to social norms. Previous …
Natural and efficient communication with humans requires artificial agents that are able to understand the meaning of natural language. However, understanding natural language is non-trivial and requires proper grounding mechanisms to create links …
Robots that incorporate social norms in their behaviors are seen as more supportive, friendly,and understanding. Since it is impossible to manually specify the most appropriate behavior for all possible situations, robots need to be able to learn it …
Robots that express human’s social norms, like empathy, are perceived as more friendly, understanding, and caring. However, appropriate human-like empathic behaviors cannot be defined in advance, instead, they must be learned through daily …
Natural human-robot interaction requires robots to learn new tasks autonomously and link the learned actions to their corresponding words through grounding. Previous studies focused only on action learning or grounding, but not both. In this paper, …