@inproceedings{wong2018advbot,

title = {Advbot: Towards Understanding Human Preference in a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario},

author = {Clarice Jiaying Wong and Yong Ling Tay and Lincoln W C Lew and Hui Fang Koh and Yijing Xiong and Yan Wu},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8581325 

https://www.yan-wu.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wong2018advbot.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581325},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-11-01},

booktitle = {The 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)},

pages = {1305-1309},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {Recent studies show that the growth of social robotics market will dominate the robotics sector by 2025. Social robots are set to enter and co-exist in daily living, making human-robot interaction studies a crucial research direction in these robotics applications. One such application is the deployment of robotics in information dissemination to augment the shrinking workforce in developed economies, such as advertisement campaigns. This work seeks to understand whether live robot advertiser can better engage audience and improve audience perception of a marketed product as compared to pre-filmed video advertising clips. In this preliminary study, a humanoid robot, the NAO, was programmed to act according to a marketing campaign script, engaging the audience through voice, simulated eye-contacts, gestures and interaction with the Keepon, a robot to be advertised. We carried out three sets of experiments in the CBD of Singapore on teenage pedestrians. The results of this study suggest that physical robot presence will enhance information dissemination and hence improve advertising result, providing value-add to the advertised product.},

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@inproceedings{wu2017investigation,

title = {Investigation on the Roles of Human and Robot in Collaborative Storytelling},

author = {Yan Wu and Ruohan Wang and Yong Ling Tay and Clarice Jiaying Wong},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8282003 

http://www.yan-wu.com/docs/wu2017investigation.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/APSIPA.2017.8282003},

isbn = {978-1-5386-1542-3},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-12-15},

booktitle = {2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC)},

pages = {063-068},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia},

abstract = {The tradition of storytelling is a distinctive human experience. There have been increasing evidences from social sciences that storytelling facilitates skill development in children. In this paper, we explore the use of humanoid robots to augment traditional storytelling, an area still understudied, to investigate the effectiveness of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in storytelling. In this preliminary experiment, a humanoid robot, Aldebaran's Nao, was programmed to recite a mystery story to 60 students aged 14 to 15, while engaging them through gestures, simulated eye contacts and varied voices. Nao delivered the performance as either an independent storyteller, or as a collaborator with a human storyteller. We assessed the effectiveness of HRC by comparing the participants' preference over the two settings. We found that 1) most participants believe that HRC is effective and prefer HRC over the robot-only performance; and 2) the complementarily effective roles of human and robot storytellers in interacting with the participants provide a glimpse of evidence on the preference towards HRC. These results, provide a first step towards effective use of robots for collaborative storytelling in day-to-day situations, which is well placed to guide the design of robots for education and entertainment purposes, e.g. for improving family bonding between parents and children while allowing parents to more effectively tell stories.},

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@inproceedings{shen2016investigation,

title = {Investigation of Practical Use of Humanoid Robots in Elderly Care Centres},

author = {Zhuoyu Shen and Yan Wu},

url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2974804.2980485 

http://www.yan-wu.com/docs/shen2016investigation.pdf},

doi = {10.1145/2974804.2980485},

isbn = {978-1-4503-4508-8},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-10-15},

booktitle = {The Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI)},

pages = {63--66},

publisher = {ACM},

address = {Singapore},

abstract = {The global trend of population ageing has magnified the shortage of qualified staff in the elderly care industry. This study evaluates the feasibility and user experience of introducing robots in elderly care services. A robot instructor was being benchmarked against a human instructor administering two types of activities with 41 elderly participants. The results show that robot was more effective and better preferred by users over human instructor on instructing physical exercise, while reaching similar level of effectiveness and user acceptance on information delivery. Additionally, user perception of robots improved after the robot experiment session. These findings could be useful for future design of robots for elderly users and for social robots in general.},

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@inproceedings{wong2016human,

title = {Human-Robot Partnership: A Study on Collaborative Storytelling},

author = {Clarice Jiaying Wong and Yong Ling Tay and Ruohan Wang and Yan Wu},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7451843 

http://www.yan-wu.com/docs/wong2016human.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/HRI.2016.7451843},

isbn = {978-1-4673-8370-7},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-03-10},

booktitle = {The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation (HRI)},

pages = {535-536},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Christchurch, New Zealand},

abstract = {This paper describes the current work on using humanoid robot to augment traditional storytelling for educational and entertainment purposes in casual contexts such as home and classroom. We explore a novel method of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) for storytelling and address the question how robots may best augment storytelling. In the pilot study, a humanoid robot, Aldebaran's Nao, was programmed to recite a story to 60 students aged 14 to 15. Nao delivered the performance as either an independent storyteller, or as a collaborator with a human storyteller. We assessed the effectiveness of HRC by comparing the participants' preference over the two settings. We found that 1) most participants prefer HRC over the robot-only performance (RO) and considered HRC effective; and 2) the preference in HRC is explained by the complementary strengths of the robot and human storyteller in interacting with the participants. These results, provide a first step towards effective use of robots for collaborative storytelling in daily situations.},

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@inproceedings{wu2015improving,

title = {Improving human-Robot Interactivity for Tele-operated Industrial and Service Robot Applications},

author = {Yan Wu and Wei Liang Chan and Yanan Li and Keng Peng Tee and Rui Yan and Dilip Kumar Limbu},

url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7274565 

http://www.yan-wu.com/docs/wu2015improving.pdf},

doi = {10.1109/ICCIS.2015.7274565},

isbn = {978-1-4673-7338-8},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-07-17},

booktitle = {2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (CIS-RAM)},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {Siem Reap, Cambodia},

abstract = {In industrial robotics applications, teach pendant has been widely used by human operators to pre-define action trajectories for robot manipulators to execute as primitives. This hard-coding approach is only good for low-mix-high-volume jobs with sparse trajectory way-points. In this paper, we present a novel industrial robotic system designed for applications where human-robot interaction is key for efficient execution of actions such as high-mix-low-volume jobs. The proposed system comprises a robot manipulator that controls a tool (such as a soldering iron) to interact with the required workpiece, a networking server for remote tele-operation, and an integrated user interface that allows the human operator to better perceive the remote operation and to execute actions with greater ease. A user study is conducted to understand the merits of the proposed system. Results indicate that human can operate the system with ease and complete tasks more quickly and that the system can improve application efficiency.},

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