Designing robot learners that ask good questions

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 17-24

  Cakmak, Maya ^a   Thomaz, Andrea L ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; learning from demonstration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; LEARNING FROM DEMONSTRATION; QUESTION TYPE; QUESTION-ASKING;

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84859964325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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