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Research & Reviews: Journal of Engineering and Technology | ISSN: 2319-9873 | Volume 8
May 23-24, 2019 | Vienna, Austria
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
2nd International Conference on
Research on assistive robots has received special focus
within the domain of robotics and is continuously gaining
ground, also boosted by demographic data and related
AAL supportive policies worldwide. Having in mind devices
which need to address real user needs and be capable of
interacting with users in some sort of “human” like manner,
it has become mandatory to find robust ways for augmenting
robot intelligence in order to enable devices overcome
basic interaction shortages which are easily spotted during
validation by end user populations.
One predominant parameter for user acceptance is proven to
be satisfaction of the human need for communication with
an “intelligent” companion or assistant, if a device has to gain
user trust and be systematically used within a specific mid- to
long-term time frame. In this context, we exploit the paradigm
of exposure of assistive devices in real use conditions, to
discuss the degree of user acceptance and the need to
augment robot intelligence in the context of multimodal
HRI. Focus is placed on those NLP tools and resources which
may increase the span of human-robot communication by
engaging standard NLP approaches in combination with
signals of human embodied expression which can lead to
enhanced performance of robotic devices when they interact
with humans.
Speaker Biography
Eleni Efthimiou is Research Director at the Institute for Language and
SpeechProcessing/ATHENARC,wheresheheadstheEmbodiedInteraction
and Robotics Group, focusing on multimodal human communication,
assistive interfaces and multimodal Human-Robot Interaction. In 1986,
she received her Ph.D. degree in Generative Linguistics from the University
of Salzburg. Her main research interests focus on natural language
processing, sign language (SL) technologies and optimization of HCI/HRI.
From 1995 to date, she has designed and developed various interaction
environments with emphasis on SL based interfaces, while she has also
developed methodologies for human multimodal data collection. In
2005, she founded the Sign Language Technologies Team at ILSP, a group
of excellence activating in wide scale SL resources and technologies with
emphasis on synthetic signing, machine translation and information
retrieval from SL video. She is an editorial board member of Universal
Access in the Information Society (UAIS) Journal.
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Eleni Efthimiou
Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
Increasing user acceptance by augmented robot intelligence: The
lesson we got from the semantics of human communication
Eleni Efthimiou, JET, Volume 8 | ISSN: 2319-9873