Social Intelligence and Human-Robot Collaboration


Contents

1. Projects

2. Publications

2025 International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 25-29

Employing Laban Shape for Generating Emotionally and Functionally Expressive Trajectories in Robotic Manipulators [PDF] [BIB]

Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu, Clare Lohrmann, Akshay Bakshi, Jennifer Kim, Jose Caraveo Herrera, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2025 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI]

Montreal, Canada, August 16-22

Implicitly Aligning Humans and Autonomous Agents through Shared Task Abstractions [PDF] [BIB]

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, Katharina von der Wense, Alessandro Roncone

2025 RSS Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Robot Learning: Teaching, Correcting, and Adapting

Los Angeles, California, USA, June 25

CRED: Counterfactual Reasoning and Environment Design for Active Preference Learning [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication [RO-MAN]

Pasadena, CA, USA, August 26-30

Eyes on the Game: Deciphering Implicit Human Signals to Infer Human Proficiency, Trust, and Intent [PDF] [BIB]

Nikhil Hulle, Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Anthony J. Ries, Jake Brawer, Katharina von der Wense, Alessandro Roncone

2024 ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction [THRI]

Generating Pattern-Based Conventions for Predictable Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]

Clare Lohrmann, Maria Stull, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes

2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI]

Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14

Workspace Optimization Techniques to Improve Prediction of Human Motion During Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes

Best Technical Paper Nominee!!

2024 7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '24 [VAM-HRI]

Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14

Improving Robot Predictability via Trajectory Optimization Using a Virtual Reality Testbed [PDF] [BIB]

Clare Lohrmann, Ethan Berg, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2024 HRI'24 Workshop on Causal Learning for Human-Robot Interaction

Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14

Causal Influence Detection for Human Robot Interaction [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Himanshu Gupta, Wei Jiang, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2024 7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '24 [VAM-HRI]

Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14

Stereoscopic Virtual Reality Teleoperation for Human Robot Collaborative Dataset Collection [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes

2023 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction [AI-HRI]

Arlington, VA, USA, Oct 25-27

Towards A Natural Language Interface For Flexible Multi-Agent Task Assignment [PDF] [BIB]

Jake Brawer, Kayleigh Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems [AAMAS]

London, UK, May 28-June 02

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Ad Hoc Teaming [PDF] [BIB]

Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, Upasana Biswas, Katharina Kann, Alessandro Roncone
Extended abstract

2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI]

Stockholm, Sweden, March 13-16

Interactive Policy Shaping for Human-Robot Collaboration with Transparent Matrix Overlays [PDF] [BIB]

Jake Brawer, Debasmita Ghose, Kate Candon, Meiying Qin, Alessandro Roncone, Marynel Vázquez, and Brian Scassellati

Best Technical Paper Award!!

2023 6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '23 [VAM-HRI]

Stockholm, Sweden, March 13

Improving Human Legibility in Collaborative Robot Tasks through Augmented Reality and Workspace Preparation [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes

2023 Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children [AIAIC]

Los Angeles, USA, February 21

Designing an AI Partner for Jigsaw classrooms [PDF] [BIB]

Jie Cao, Rachel Dickler, Marie Grace, Jeffrey B. Bush, Alessandro Roncone, Leanne M. Hirshfield, Marilyn A. Walker, Martha S. Palmer

2022 IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication [RO-MAN]

Naples, Italy, August 29

Bilevel Optimization for Just-in-Time Robotic Kitting and Delivery via Adaptive Task Segmentation and Scheduling [PDF] [BIB]

Yi-Shiuan Tung, Kayleigh Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2022 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI @ ACL 2022

Dublin, Ireland, May 27

Open-Domain Dialogue Generation: What We Can Do, Cannot Do, And Should Do Next [PDF] [BIB]

Katharina Kann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Joewie J. Koh, Shiran Dudy, Alessandro Roncone

2022 MIT Press

Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms

Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone

2022 Frontiers in Robotics and AI

How to be Helpful? Supportive Behaviors and Personalization for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]

Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati

2021 ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI], Workshop on Robots for Learning

Boulder, CO, U.S.A., March 12

Teaching Grounded Reading Skills via an Interactive Robot Tutor [PDF] [BIB]

Kayleigh "Kaleb" Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

2019 2nd ICRA International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics

Montreal, Canada, May 20-24

An Affordance-based Action Planner for On-line and Concurrent Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly

Francesca Stramandinoli, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, Francesco Nori, and Brian Scassellati

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]

Madrid, Spain, October 1-5

Situated Human-Robot Collaboration: predicting intent from grounded natural language [PDF] [BIB]

Jake Brawer, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]

Madrid, Spain, October 1-5

Preference-Based Assistance Prediction for Human-Robot Collaboration Tasks [PDF] [BIB]

Elena Corina Grigore, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]

Madrid, Spain, October 1-5

The HRC Model set for Human-Robot Collaboration Research [PDF] [BIB]

Sofya Zeylikman, Sarah Widder, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati

2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems [AAMAS]

Stockholm, Sweden, July 11-13

Predicting Supportive Behaviors for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]

Elena Corina Grigore, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati
Extended abstract

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA]

Singapore, Singapore May 29-June 3

Transparent Role Assignment and Task Allocation in Human Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]

Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati

2016 International Conference on Social Robotics [ICSR]

Kansas City, MO, U.S.A., November 1-3

Physiologically Inspired Blinking Behavior for a Humanoid Robot [PDF] [BIB]

Hagen Lehmann, Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta