Iolanda Leite

schoolKTH Royal Institute of Technologybar_chart#1981 Global Rank

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Join Me Here if You Will: Investigating Embodiment and Politeness Behaviors When Joining Small Groups of Humans, Robots, and Virtual Characters

Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it remains unclear how embodiment and politeness affect individuals joining groups. In this paper, we explore how politeness behaviors (verbal…

HRI '24CorrespondingGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

PREDILECT: Preferences Delineated with Zero-Shot Language-based Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning

Preference-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a new field in robot learning, where humans play a pivotal role in shaping robot behavior by expressing preferences on different sequences of state-action pairs. However, formulating realistic policies for robots demands responses from humans to an extensive…

HRI '23CorrespondingHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +2

Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is inherently a human-centric field of technology. The role of feminist theories in related fields (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science) are taken as a starting point to present a vision for Feminist HRI which can support better, more ethical HRI practice everyday, as well as a…

HRI '233rd AuthorTeleoperated Driving +1

Increasing Perceived Safety in Motion Planning for Human-Drone Interaction

Safety is crucial for autonomous drones to operate close to humans. Besides avoiding unwanted or harmful contact, people should also perceive the drone as safe. Existing safe motion planning approaches for autonomous robots, such as drones, have primarily focused on ensuring physical safety, e.g., by imposing constrai…

HRI '232nd AuthorHuman Pose & Activity Recognition +1

Would You Help Me? Linking Robot's Perspective-Taking to Human Prosocial Behavior

Despite the growing literature on human attitudes toward robots, particularly prosocial behavior, little is known about how robots' perspective-taking, the capacity to perceive and understand the world from other viewpoints, could influence such attitudes and perceptions of the robot. To make robots and AI more autono…

CHI '205th+ AuthorAI-Assisted Decision-Making & Automation +1

Embodiment Effects in Interactions with Failing Robots

The increasing use of robots in real-world applications will inevitably cause users to encounter more failures in interactions. While there is a longstanding effort in bringing human-likeness to robots, how robot embodiment affects users' perception of failures remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we extend prio…

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