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Roboceptionist Heads: Reid Simmons and Anne Mundell 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.

Project Description

Tank is a robot receptionist for Newell-Simon Hall. Valerie is the product of an interdisciplinary project between members of the Robotics Institute and the Drama department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The goal of the project is to produce a robot helpmate that is useful, exhibits social competence, and remains compelling to interact with for an extended period of time. In addition to helping people by providing information about CMU and directions to people's offices, Tank is a character whose story is revealed over time through his interactions with people and phone conversations with his friends and family.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Greg Armstrong	Senior Research Technician, CS	roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
	Rachel Gockley	PhD Student, RI	rgockley@andrew.cmu.edu
	Marion "Tank" LaFleur	Roboceptionist, RI/Drama
	Marek Piotr Michalowski	PhD Student, RI	n/a
	Anne Mundell	Associate Professor, Drama	amundell@andrew.cmu.edu
	Reid Simmons	Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS	reids@cs.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• 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]
  Download: pdf [1236 KB] copyrighted

• 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]
  Download: pdf [198 KB] copyrighted

• 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]
  Download: pdf [458 KB] copyrighted

• 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]
  Download: pdf [133 KB] copyrighted

• 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]
  Download: pdf [155 KB] copyrighted

• 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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