| Monday, March 26, 2007 | |
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Introduction Symposium co-chairs |
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Spatial Challenges for Assistive Robots chair: Rachid Alami |
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| 9:15-10:15 (~20 minute talks) |
Smart-wheeler: A Robotic Test-bed for Investigating New Models of Human-Robot Interaction Joelle Pineau and Amin Atrash Robot-Assisted Shopping for the Blind: Haptic and Locomotor Spaces in Supermarkets Vladimir Kulyukin Exploratory Studies of a Robot Approaching a Person in the Context of Handing Over an Object Kheng Lee Koay, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Michael L. Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, and Rachid Alami |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Discussion - Break-out Session |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Romancing Machines and Dancing with Robots: Sociologists and the RoboSapiens Keynote Speaker: Sal Restivo |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
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Interdisciplinary Field Research in Social Robotics chair: Hideki Kozima |
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| 1:30-2:30 (~20 minute talks) |
Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Guided discussion - Break-out session |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00-5:30 |
Visit to Prof. Clifford Nass's lab: Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab at Stanford University, which focuses on studying human-machine communication. |
| 5:30-6:00 |
Break |
| 6:00-7:00 |
AAAI reception for all spring symposia |
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 | |
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Issues in Socially Assistive Robotics chair: Francois Michaud |
9:00-10:00 (~20 minute talks) |
Assistive Technologies and Children-Robot Interaction |
| Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
| 10:00-12:00 (~ 3 minute teasers) |
Developing Spatial Skills for Social Robots Rachel Gockley Situation-based Robot Design Seita Koike, Kohei Osawa, Shuntaro Kon, Miho Takahashi Talk the Walk: Robotic NLP vs. Human Sublanguage Acquisition Vladimir Kulyukin High Performance Differential Elastic Actuator for Robotic Interaction Tasks Michel Lauria, Marc Antoine Legault, Francois Michaud Countering the Frankenstein Complex Lee McCauley Next Generation Human-Robot Telematic Teams Libor Preucil, Jiri Pavlicek, Roman Mazl, Frauke Driewer and Klaus Schilling The Initiation of Engagement by a Humanoid Robot Candace Sidner and Christopher Lee Bayesian Indoor Navigation Aid for Users with Limited Perceptual Input Brian J. Stankiewicz Looking Good? Appearance Preferences and Robot Personality Inferences at Zero Acquaintance Dag Sverre Syrdal, Michael Lee Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, Sarah N. Woods, and Kerstin Dautenhahn Robot to Human Approaches: Preliminary Results on Comfortable Distances and Preferences Michael L.Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, Sarah N. Woods, Dag Sverre Syrdal, and Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00-2:00 |
How social robots will help us to diagnose, treat, and understand autism Keynote Speaker: Brian Scassellati |
| 2:00-3:30 |
Joint session with Interaction Challenges for Artificial Assistants symposia |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00-5:30 |
Visit to Prof. Oussama Khatib's lab: Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University, which focuses on safety of human-robot interaction in manipulator robotics. |
| 5:30-6:00 |
Break |
| 6:00-7:30 | Plenary session for all nine symposia. Our speaker: Brian Scassellati
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | |
| 9:00-10:00 |
A robot that aims to serve humans and be accepted by them Keynote Speaker: Rachid Alami |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Technical Solutions in Assistive Robotics chair: Kheng Lee Koay |
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| 10:30-11:30 (~20 minute talks) |
Simplifying Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm Control with Visual Interface Kate Tsui and Holly Yanco Combining Sound Localization and Laser-based Object Recognition Laurent Calmes, Hermann Wagner, Stefan Schiffer, and Gerhard Lakemeyer Efficient Model Learning for Dialog Management Finale Doshi and Nicholas Roy |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Final summary and wrap-up Symposium co-chairs |