ERCIM News 114
July 2018
Special theme Human-Robot Interaction
Guest editors Serena Ivaldi (Inria) and Maria Pateraki (ICS-FORTH)
Guest Editorial
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by Jos Baeten
Recently, I attended a lecture by Cathy O’Neil, author of the book “Weapons of Math Destruction”. Clearly, she demonstrated the destructive power of proprietary predictive algorithms that learn from possibly biased data sets.
I think we need to be able to appeal against decisions by such algorithms, the software implementing these algorithms should be open source, and the underlying data sets should be open for inspection by an authority. Apart from this, each individual should be able to control his/her data, and should have the right to be informed, the right to inspect and correct.
Human-Robot Interaction - Introduction to the Special Theme
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by the guest editors Serena Ivaldi (Inria) and Maria Pateraki (ICS-FORTH)
This special theme addresses the state of the art of human-robot interaction (HRI), discussing the current challenges faced by the research community for integrating both physical and social interaction skills into current and future collaborative robots.
Recent years have seen a proliferation of applications for robots interacting physically with humans in manufacturing and industry, from bimanual cooperation in assembly with cobots (i.e., industrial manipulators for collaboration) to physical assistance with exoskeletons. These applications have driven research in many fundamental topics for collaboration, such as shared task allocation, synchronisation and coordination, control of contacts and physical interaction, role estimation and adaptive role allocation during collaboration, learning by demonstrations, safe control, etc. All the developments in these areas contribute to the success of the “Industry 4.0”, whose elite platforms are essentially cobots and exoskeletons.
- From Collaborative Robots to Work Mates: A New Perspective on Human-Robot Cooperation
- Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration with Prediction and Anticipation
- LIHLITH: Improving Communication Skills of Robots through Lifelong Learning
- Contextualised Conversational Systems
- Multi-Modal Interfaces for Human–Robot Communication in Collaborative Assembly
- Wholistic Human Robot Simulation for Efficient Planning of HRC Workstations
- A Cognitive Architecture for Autonomous Assistive Robots
- An Interview Robot for Collecting Patient Data in a Hospital
- ComBox – a Multimodal HRI Strategy for Assistive Robots
- Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Putting the ‘H’ back in ‘HRI’
- Robots with Social Intelligence
- Time-informed Human-Robot Interaction: Combining Time, Emotions, Skills and Task Ordering
- Human-Robot Social Interactions: The Role of Social Norms
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- Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Manufacturing Companies: A Semantic Approach Compliant with the NIST Framework
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- TRUSTEE – Data Privacy and Cloud Security Cluster Europe
- Educational Robotics Improves Social Relations at School
- SMESEC: A Cybersecurity Framework to Protect, Enhance and Educate SMEs
- Data Management in Practice – Knowing and Walking the Path
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- LODsyndesis: The Biggest Knowledge Graph of the Linked Open Data Cloud that Includes all Inferred Equivalence Relationships
- Dagstuhl Seminars and Perspectives Workshops
- Community Group on “Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls”
- The Hague Summit for Accountability & Internet Democracy