Skubic, M., “Squaring the Life Curve: How Can Robots Help?” Panel on Assistive and Rehabilitative Robotics: Potential and Challenges, Annual Meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston, Feb., 2017.

HCC: Human-Driven Spatial Language for Human-Robot Interaction

Human subject experiments will be conducted with college students and elderly participants to explore spatial descriptions in a fetch task; results will drive the development of robot algorithms, which will be evaluated using a similar set of assessment experiments in virtual and physical environments.

Huo, Z., Skubic, M. & Alexenko, T., "Natural Spatial Description Generation for Human-Robot Interaction in Indoor Environments," Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, St Louis, MO, May 2016.
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Huo, Z., Alexenko, T. & Skubic, M., "Using Spatial Language to Drive a Robot for an Indoor Environment Fetch Task," Proceedings, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, IL, September 14-18, 2014, pp 1361-1366.
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Carlson, L., Skubic, M., Miller, J., Huo, Z. & Alexenko, T. "Strategies for Human-Driven Robot Comprehension of Spatial Descriptions by Older Adults in a Robot Fetch Task," Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014, special issue on human-robot interaction, 6(3):513-533.
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Skubic M, Huo Z, Alexenko T, Carlson L & Miller J, "Testing an Assistive Fetch Robot with Spatial Language from Older and Younger Adults," IEEE International Symposium On Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Gyeongju, Korea, August 26-29, 2013, pp 697-702.
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Carlson L, Skubic M, Miller J, Huo Z & Alexenko T, "Assessing the Effectiveness of Older Adults' Spatial Descriptions in a Fetch Task," Proceedings, 35th Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013, pp 281-286.
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Alexenko T, Biondo M, Banisakher D & Skubic M, "Android-Based Speech Processing for Eldercare Robotics," Proceedings, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-22, 2013, pp 87-88.
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Skubic M, Alexenko T, Huo Z, Carlson L & Miller J, "Investigating Spatial Language for Robot Fetch Commands," Proceedings, AAAI 2012 Workshop on Grounding Language for Physical Systems, Toronto, CA, July 23, 2012, pp 40-45.
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Skubic M, Carlson L, Miller J, Li XO & Huo Z, "Spatial Language Experiments for a Robot Fetch Task," Proceedings, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Late Breaking News, Boston, MA, March, 2012, pp 239-240.
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Carlson LA, Skubic M, Miller J, Huo Z & Li XO, "A Corpus of Spatial Descriptions for the Development of Human-Driven Spatial Language Robot Algorithms," Proceedings, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA, Nov. 3-6, 2011.
Skubic M, Huo Z, Carlson L, Li X & Miller J, "Human-Driven Spatial Language for Human-Robot Interaction," Proceedings, AAAI Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Eldercare Bibliography: San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2011, pp 32-34
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