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