Leveraging Prosody as an Informative Teaching Signal for Agent Learning: Exploratory Studies and Algorithmic Implications
Published in ICMI 2024, 2024
Paper accepted to ICMI 2024
Publications
Understanding Acoustic Patterns of Human Teachers Demonstrating Manipulation Tasks to Robots
Published in IROS 2022, 2022
Paper accepted to IROS 2022
Recommended citation: A. Saran, K. Desai, M. Chang, R. Lioutikov, A. Thomaz, and S. Niekum. Understanding Acoustic Patterns of Human Teachers Demonstrating Manipulation Tasks to Robots. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2022.
A Case for Leveraging Human Prosody for Robot learning
Published in HRI 2021, 2021
Workshop paper at Sound in HRI 2021
Recommended citation: A. Saran, K. Desai, R. Lioutikov, A. Thomaz, and S. Niekum. A Case for Leveraging Human Prosody during Reward Learning. Workshop, 16th Annual Conference for Basic and Applied Human-Robot Interaction Research, March 2021.