UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

        "Toward an Acceptable Human-Robot Social Interaction: 
            Development of Perception and Attention Models 
                     for Humanoid Robots"

                        Dr. Abolfazl Zaraki

    (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science,
                  University of Hertfordshire)

                    16 November 2016  (Wednesday)
                           1 - 2 pm


                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                        Seminar Room D102

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:


With the rapid advancement of humanlike robots and of related computing
methods in robotics, social humanoid robots that interact with humans are
becoming more integrated into daily life. As social robots are designed
for tasks and scenarios that require close interaction and collaboration
with humans thus, as the most important requirement, they must be able
to shape an acceptable human-robot social interaction with a group of
people. To endow robots with this capability, firstly, they should be
able to perceive, analyse, and interpret the social scene in the same
way that humans do. Then, they should be able to react properly to the
social events in a natural humanlike manner and close the interaction
loop displaying a context-dependent behaviour. In this talk, I will
discuss the development of behaviour models for a humanoid social robot,
which have been designed to deal with the robot’s perception, attention
and gaze capabilities.

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