Tran Anh Dung

TL;DR: Results showed improvement in RJA skills post training, relative to a pre-training test, which shows that with the use of objective measures and protocols grounded in methods of experimental psychology, it is possible to design efficient training of specific social cognitive mechanisms, which are the basis for more complex social skills.

TL;DR: The preliminary survey results indicate that the CuDDler has potential to not only aid in human-robot interaction but also contribute towards the long term goal of multi-model emotion recognition and socially interactive robot.

TL;DR: A study with five children with autism who were involved in a game found that the autistic children with higher scores of social communication skills directed significantly more eye gaze and touch towards the robot, supporting the idea that robot was suitable for encouraging interaction.

TL;DR: The development of an interactive pet companion, CuDDler, with the capability to recognize verbal and non-verbal communication acts that are tied to the emotional state of a person, leading to improved overall health and reduced healthcare cost is reported.

TL;DR: This paper designs and develops a component pluggable event-driven dialogue framework for service robots that works for all the robots that need speech interface, and improves the system robustness, reliability, and maintainability.