{"664969":{"#nid":"664969","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag, Marynel V\u00e1zquez: Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction: Towards Robots with Increased Social Context Awareness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany real-world applications require that robots handle the complexity of multi-party social encounters, e.g., delivery robots may need to navigate through crowds, robots in manufacturing settings may need to coordinate their actions with those of human coworkers, and robots in educational environments may help multiple people practice and improve their skills. How can we enable robots to effectively take part in these social interactions? At first glance, multi-party interactions may be seen as a trivial generalization of one-on-one human-robot interactions, suggesting no special consideration. Unfortunately, this approach is limited in practice because it ignores higher-order effects, like group factors, that often drive human behavior in multi-party Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk, I will describe two research directions that we believe are important to advance multi-party HRI. The first direction focuses on understanding group dynamics and social group phenomena from an experimental perspective. The other one focuses on leveraging graph state abstractions and structured data-driven methods for reasoning about social contexts, which include individual, interpersonal and group-level factors relevant to human-robot interactions. As part of this talk, I will also describe our recent efforts to scale HRI data collection for early system development and testing via online interactive surveys. We have begun to explore this idea in the context of social robot navigation but, thanks to advances in game development engines, it could be easily applied to other HRI application domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarynel V\u0026aacute;zquez is an Assistant Professor in Yale\u0026rsquo;s Computer Science Department, where she leads the Interactive Machines Group. Her research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), especially in multi-party and group settings. Marynel is a recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Award and two Amazon Research Awards. Her work has been recognized with nominations to paper awards at RO-MAN 2016, IROS 2018, HRI 2021, and RO-MAN 2022. Prior to Yale, Marynel was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Stanford Vision \u0026amp; Learning Lab and obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a collaborator of Disney Research. Before then, she received her bachelor\u0026#39;s degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad Sim\u0026oacute;n Bol\u0026iacute;var in Caracas, Venezuela.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow can robots effectively take part in HRI? Marynel V\u0026aacute;zquez (Assistant Professor, Computer Science at Yale University) will present two research directions important to advance multi-party Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).\u0026nbsp;The first direction focuses on understanding group dynamics and social group phenomena from an experimental perspective. The second direction\u0026nbsp;focuses on leveraging graph state abstractions and structured data-driven methods for reasoning about social contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Marynel V\u00e1zquez will describe two research directions important to advance multi-party Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2023-01-23 13:55:35","changed_gmt":"2023-02-02 19:46:49","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-02-09T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-02-09T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-02-09T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-02-09 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-02-09 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-02-09 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664971":{"id":"664971","type":"image","title":"Marynel V\u00e1zquez Photo 2023","body":null,"created":"1674482439","gmt_created":"2023-01-23 14:00:39","changed":"1674482439","gmt_changed":"2023-01-23 14:00:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251534","name":"Vazquez Photo 2023.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vazquez%20Photo%202023.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vazquez%20Photo%202023.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":990621,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vazquez%20Photo%202023.jpeg?itok=nDY3koQN"}}},"media_ids":["664971"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}