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The hesitation of a robot: a delay in its motion increases learning efficiency and impresses humans as teachable

Published:02 March 2010Publication History

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If robots learn new actions through human-robot interaction, it is important that the robots can utilize rewards as well as instructions to reduce humans' efforts. Additioanlly, "interval" which allows humans to give instructions and evaluations is also important. We hence focused on "delays in initiating actions" and changed them according to the progress of learning: long delays at early stages, and short at later stages. We compared the proposed varying delay with a constant delay by an experiment. The result demonstrated that the varying delay improves learning efficiency significantly and impresses humans as teachable.

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      HRI '10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
      March 2010
      400 pages
      ISBN:9781424448937

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