Workshop on the Future of Social Robotics
June 2nd, 2016 Oxford
Welcome & Introduction
• What’s This Workshop About?
• Why This Workshop?
• Schedule
• Acknowledgements
What’s This Workshop About?
learning with humans in the loop
learning in the presence of humans
perception
control
(human-robot interaction, social navigation)
(learning from demonstration, inverse reinforcement learning)
(people detection & tracking, social signal processing)
(social navigation, dialogue, body language)
• How can we learn from scarce human interaction data?
• How can we efficiently measure performance empirically?
• How can we get sufficient feedback from humans?
• How should we interpret that feedback?
• How should we model human intentions?
• How can we give social robots good morals?
• What ethical dilemmas might a social robot face?
What’s This Workshop About?
What Is Telepresence?
“Skype on a stick”
Human Controller / Pilot Interaction Target
Telepresence Benefits
• Greater physical presence:“Your alter ego on wheels”
• Mobility enables spontaneous interaction
Application: Education Accessibility
Application: Remote Health Care
Application: Elderly Accessibility
“Cafe Philo" Discussion Group
Les Arcades Prevention Centre in Troyes, France
Telepresence Limitations• Learning curve for human controller
• Otherwise automatic behaviours (e.g., body language) require manual execution
• Human controller must simultaneously make high-level and low-level decisions
• Leads to cognitive overload: mistakes at the low level; less attention for the high level [Tsui et al. 2011]
• Result is poor quality social interaction
TERESA Solution
• A new telepresence system with partial autonomy: automate low-level decision making
• Free human controller to focus on high-level decisions
• Requires social intelligence:
• Social navigation
• Social conversation
TERESA Robot
Next Version of TERESA
Experiments with Real Subjects
Les Arcades Prevention Centre in Troyes, France
Schedule• 13:45 Opening by Shimon Whiteson (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 Invited Talk by Rob Wortham (University of Bath): Transparent Minds: A principled challenge to build trustless AI for social robot applications.
• 14:30 Invited Talk by Paul Bremner (Bristol Robotics Laboratory): Humanoid Robots as Physical Avatars for Telecommunication
• 15:00 Break
• 15:30 Challenge Presentations
• 16:00 Panel and Group Discussion
• 17:15 Drinks (Atrium)
Acknowledgements• Diederik Roijers
• Invited Speakers:
• Rob Wortham
• Paul Bremner
• TERESA project members
• All Attendees