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Tasks, Abilities, and Term Projects. Paul Cohen. But first...Names!. Emily Oliver Curious George ... Come on, people! . What we want. Define a handful of tasks, each of which requires multiple abilities. Each ability is used for more than one task
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Tasks, Abilities, and Term Projects Paul Cohen
But first...Names! • Emily • Oliver • Curious George • ... • Come on, people!
What we want Define a handful of tasks, each of which requires multiple abilities. Each ability is used for more than one task Each task requires more that one ability The outputs of some abilities are the inputs of others Each team works on one ability (or a small number) but exercises it in all tasks
Tasks • Meet and Greet • Turntaking games • Tidying up • Whazzat (Wubble World)
Meet and Greet • Amr Gaber’s idea: • Robot sits somewhere public, greets people, learns to recognize them and their names, learns to recognize moods and attitudes, learns social conventions re chatting... • Examples • What to say to someone you do/don’t recognize • What to say when two people are talking to each other • What to say when people are hanging around/walking fast “Hi Paul, nice to see you again. How’s Carole? I remember you were in the lab last thursday with Cody. He is here a lot. Sometimes I think he sleeps here. ...” “Hi Ian, I see you are talking with someone and don’t want to interrupt, but could you introduce me to your friend?”
Turntaking Games Peekaboo ! Pattycake !
Wubble World Work with Daniel Hewlett and Wesley Kerr Wubble and room design by Teresa Dey
How Wubbles Learn the Meanings of Words "Go to the blue cylinder" 1. parse go to the blue cylinder 3. score correspondences between retrieved representation and scene 2. retrieve a semantic representation of a word or phrase 5. given positive feedback, update semantic representation 4. act or ask
Assignment for Next Week • Break into groups for the four tasks (we’ll organize around abilities later) • Storyboard a few minutes in the life of the robot doing the task • Make a refined list of abilities • Search for off-the-shelf software for these abilities in ROS and online. Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, • Pay attention to glue: concepts and control • Write and present a 15-minute dissertation on all of the above