Roboceptionist - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

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.

Displaying 12 Publications

2011

Interactional disparities in English and Arabic native speakers with bi-lingual robot receptionist

Imran Aslam Fanaswala, Brett Browning, and Majd Sakr

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI '11), pp. 133 - 134, March, 2011

2010

Do You Really Want to Know? Display Questions in Human-Robot Dialogues

Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '10 Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, pp. 157 - 158, November, 2010

Dialogue Patterns of an Arabic Robot Receptionist

Maxim Makatchev, Imran Aslam Fanaswala, Ameer Ayman Abdulsalam, Brett Browning, Wael Mahmoud Ghazzawi, Majd Sakr, and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '10), pp. 167 - 168, March, 2010

2009

Incorporating a User Model to Improve Detection of Unhelpful Robot Answers

Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '09), pp. 973 - 978, September, 2009

How do people talk with a robot?: an analysis of human-robot dialogues in the real world

Min Kyung Lee and Maxim Makatchev

Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), pp. 3769 - 3774, April, 2009

Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse

Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '09), pp. 321 - 322, March, 2009

2007

Making Friends: Building Social Robots through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Selma Sabanovic, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Linnda R. Caporael

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '07 Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, pp. 71 - 77, March, 2007

2006

A spatial model of engagement for a social robot

Marek Piotr Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and Reid Simmons

Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 762 - 767, March, 2006

Interactions with a Moody Robot

Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 186 - 193, March, 2006

Multimodal person tracking and attention classification

Marek Piotr Michalowski and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 347 - 348, March, 2006