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Collaboration between distributed human and robot partners during military operations is becoming more necessary. In order to enable efficient real-time communication, it is important to develop user interfaces that support robust spoken language understanding capabilities. As a step toward achieving this objective, this work examines the role of shared gaze between a human and robot during remote...
The effect of a robotic teammate on a human partner's workload has not been fully quantified. Prior research found that human participants experienced lower workload when working with a robotic partner than when working with a human partner. An evaluation investigated whether a similar trend in workload exists for tasks requiring direct and collaborative interaction between the partners, and joint...
In the development of companion robots capable of any-depth, long-term interaction, social scenarios enable exploration of the robot's capacity to engage a human interactant. These scenarios are typically constrained to structured task-based interactions, to enable the quantification of results for the comparison of differing experimental conditions. This paper introduces a hardware setup to facilitate...
In all human-robot interaction, trust is an important element to consider because the presence or absence of trust certainly impacts the ultimate outcome of that interaction. Limited research exists that delineates the development and maintenance of this trust in various operational contexts. Our own prior research has investigated theoretical and empirically supported antecedents of human-robot trust...
This study considers contemporary budget reforms within the context of e-government due to their broader technological applications and informational content. In recent initiatives of budget reforms, governments have coupled together information systems with budgetary and managerial components. The result is a joint innovation to support the budget reform. This study extended structuration theory...
This work involves a development of a robotics simulation platform called SIGVerse. In order to address the motivation and novelty of the development, this paper aims to illustrate the features specially designed to address the needs in human-robot interaction (HRI) development. This paper has responded to five main factors that define a HRI problem to illustrate the SIGVerse capabilities in facilitating...
Incomplete preferences of agents may render service selection ineffective. We address this problem by proposing a set of collaborative approaches to complementing agents' incomplete preferences in a qualitative way. For an agent, the approaches first find its similar agents, and then base the similar agents' qualitative preferences to complement this agent's missing preferences. We analyze and compare...
Learning and adaptability (and thus the ability of being co-operative) are important features of decision & control systems. This paper investigates decision making and control concepts that enable human beings and artificial beings to interact and co-operate in real time in a dynamic and reliable way. It examines the aspects of being co-operative and substitutable in the context of: (i) co-operative...
We present key insights from two independent projects attempting to foster massive collaboration to solve complex problems. The teams designed frameworks for Massively Collaborative Problem Solving(MCPS) that encourage deep reasoning to emerge by combining small contributions from many distributed individuals. Instead of a linear approach to problem solving, in which many people are asked to perform...
This paper focuses on socio-cultural user modeling in a social and intercultural collaborative context. we first, study and discuss several examples of user models in many research domains, we mainly focus on how these models are defined and represented. After that, we describe our generic and multidimensional socio-cultural profile, so, we define and justify its dimensions, its characteristics and...
Lifelog research often needs collaboration from many disciplines. Also most related works need very advanced expertise while chances to find all skilled members at one place are very rare. It also involves privacy and/or copyrighted materials where the mutual consent of the use of data is very important. Thus a secure Web-based service is a great way for researchers for technical collaboration to...
Nature teaches us how the collaboration between the members of a herd is an important aspect to ensure their survival as a group. Collaboration requires communication, but it may happen that it could not be established for some reason. In this context, members of the herd have to make decisions on its own, trying to do the best for the group. Inspired by this principle, we have designed a method to...
Through a case study involving a microengineering company, this paper models the flow of strategic information i.e. the quality of information required to make strategic decisions. The structure for collaboration within the company is captured using complex network theory. The behaviour of the network is then analysed in terms of how decisions are made based on the closeness of relationships among...
Multi-layered social networks reflect complex relationships existing in modern interconnected IT systems. In such a network each pair of nodes may be linked by many edges that correspond to different communication or collaboration user activities. Multi-layered degree centrality for multi-layered social networks is presented in the paper. Experimental studies were carried out on data collected from...
Being able to work effectively in any collaborative venture is beneficial for everyone who is involved in the undertaking. In order for a collaborative venture to be effective, it must allow a wide range of people possessing different expertise to interact in a seamless manner. Thus, it is of utmost importance to investigate the underlying strategy that permits people with different expertise to work...
This paper focuses on the (d)evolving interface between cyber worlds and the real world, what Giannachi has called the hyper surface. This fusion of real and representation, linking cyber and real worlds constitutes mixed reality interaction as experienced by humans in the physical world, their avatars, agents, and virtual humans. Current mixed reality XML RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interfaces and...
In this paper we propose a "find similar" method intended to extend the searching capabilities of digital collections targeting educational and academic domains. Given a document, the described algorithm finds similar documents that may be of interest to the user. It exploits the metadata typical for the participatory web. In the adopted model, documents are viewed as objects associated...
The classic approach to teleoperation system design seeks to augment human capabilities and allow the execution fo tasks in a remote (possible hazardous) environment. Recent developments have provided robotic systems with additional autonomy, thus allowing the possibility of having collaboration between humans and robots in local scenarios. This paper presents preliminary ideas where the concept of...
Cooperative design of complex artifacts always involves several specialists who necessarily have different technical cultures. Multi-agent systems mixing artificial and human agents are a key technology for supporting collaborative work. The paper first includes a brief description of such a supporting architecture, emphasizing the role of personal assistant agents. Personal assistant agents engage...
Social collaboration can benefit individuals by avoiding efforts and risks inherent of trial-and-error learning. However, social collaboration may demand considerable effort and time. We present a new model of social collaboration based on Informational Natural Selection in order to investigate social problem-solving. We performed a set of social network experiments in which individuals solved problems...
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