Heather Knight

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Iterative Robot Waiter Algorithm Design: Service Expectations and Social Factors

Mobile robots carrying food in restaurants are here. What service behavior norms do people expect them to follow? This paper evaluates robot waiter algorithms and service parameters for scenarios with two participants at a simulated cocktail event. Varying body-storming inspired context variables such as: “hunger leve…

DIS '20CorrespondingSocial Robot Interaction +1

"Would You Please Buy Me a Coffee?'': How Microcultures Impact People's Helpful Actions Toward Robots

Robots sometimes face hardware and algorithmic challenges that exceed their capabilities, e.g., an armless robot pressing an elevator button. Previous work suggests that rather than augmenting the robot capabilities, sometimes robots can simply ask for help. A central contribution of this paper is the discovery of how…

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