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Social Robots
Head: Reid Simmons
Contact: Reid Simmons (reids@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC
Associated labs/groups: Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and Human-Robot Interaction Group

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - September 2006.

The goal of the Social Robot Project is to overcome the human-robot social barrier. Towards this end, we are in the process of developing a robot which bears a personality, and which can behave according to social conventions. The idea is that communication and interaction with robots should be easy and enjoyable, both for unfamiliar users and trained professionals. We want robots to behave more like people, so that people do not have to behave like robots when they interact with them.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Greg Armstrong - Senior Research Technician, CS <roboman@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Allison Bruce - PhD Student, RI <abruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Marek Piotr Michalowski - PhD Student, RI <n/a>
• [Home] Illah Nourbakhsh - Associate Professor <illah@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Reid Simmons - Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS <reids@cs.cmu.edu>

• Vikia - We are developing a robot who has personality and with whom it is easy to communicate.

• Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays Social Tag at AAAI 2005
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, May, 2007, pp. 385-397. [Abstract]

• Making Friends: Building Social Robots through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  S. Sabanovic, M.P. Michalowski, and L.R. Caporael
  Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics: Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-07-07, AAAI, March, 2007, pp. 71-77. [Abstract]
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• Natural Person-Following Behavior for Social Robots
  R. Gockley, J. Forlizzi, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007, pp. 17-24. [Abstract]
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• Modeling Affect in Socially Interactive Robots
  R. Gockley, R. Simmons, and J. Forlizzi
  Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN06), September, 2006, pp. 558-563. [Abstract]
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• A spatial model of engagement for a social robot
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC 2006), IEEE, March, 2006, pp. 762 - 767. [Abstract]
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• Interactions with a Moody Robot
  R. Gockley, J. Forlizzi, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, Utah, March, 2006, pp. 186-193. [Abstract]
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• Multimodal person tracking and attention classification
  M.P. Michalowski and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), ACM, March, 2006, pp. 347-348. [Abstract]
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• Robots in the wild: observing human-robot social interaction outside the lab
  S. Sabanovic, M.P. Michalowski, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC 2006), IEEE, March, 2006, pp. 596 - 601. [Abstract]
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• Socially Distributed Perception
  M.P. Michalowski, C.F. DiSalvo, S. Sabanovic, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), ACM, March, 2006, pp. 349-350. [Abstract]
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• Designing Robots for Long-Term Social Interaction
  R. Gockley, A. Bruce, J. Forlizzi, M.P. Michalowski, A. Mundell, S. Rosenthal, B.P. Sellner, R. Simmons, K. Snipes, A. Schultz, and J. Wang
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), IEEE, August, 2005, pp. 2199 - 2204. [Abstract]
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