Adaptive Robotic EQ for Well-being (ARoEQ)

社交机器人被设想为安全而高效地与人们密切互动，并通过帮助、关怀、教学和娱乐为人们的生活增加价值。然而，目前公众对人形/社交机器人能力的认知与其实际能力之间存在着很大的差距。目前的仿人机器人的认知和社交能力仍然非常有限。尽管社交机器人是一个固有的多学科领域，但在情感计算、社会信号处理、计算机视觉和机器学习等领域，还没有系统的努力为这些机器人开发新的感知、感知和理解能力。为了避免重复发明轮子，HRI的研究人员经常正确地利用来自其他领域的可用的感知/感知工具，创建他们自己的内部数据集和评估。然而，这些做法阻碍了社交机器人技术的发展，导致严重缺乏新的和特定于领域的工具，并且由于缺乏对比较评估至关重要的带注释的、公开可用的多模式交互数据集，因此缺乏基准措施。该奖学金旨在解决HRI和社会机器人领域的这些重大差距。它的愿景是：(1)在情感计算、社会信号处理、计算机视觉和机器学习领域为类人机器人配备新的社会情感智能和适应能力；(2)调查类人机器人作为社会情感智能体现的个人设备的部署，这些设备可能会彻底改变我们保持更健康行为和工作环境的能力，导致具有弹性的社区。

Social robots are envisioned to interact closely with people safely and efficiently, and to add value to people's lives by helping, caring, teaching and entertaining. However, currently there is a major gap between public perception of humanoid / social robot capabilities and their actual capabilities. The cognitive and social capabilities of the current humanoid robots are still very limited.Although social robotics is an inherently multi-disciplinary field, there are no systematic efforts to develop novel sensing, perception and understanding capabilities for these robots grounded in the state of the art in the fields of affective computing, social signal processing, computer vision and machine learning. To avoid re-inventing the wheel, researchers in HRI often and rightly utilise available sensing / perception tools from other domains, creating their own in-house datasets and evaluations. However, these practices hinder advance in social robotics, leading to a major lack of novel and domain specific tools, and a lack of measures for benchmarking due to a lack of annotated, publicly available multimodal interaction datasets that are vital for comparative evaluation. This Fellowship aims to address these major gaps in HRI and social robotics. Its vision is to:(1) equip humanoid robots with novel socio-emotional intelligence and adaptation capabilities grounded in the state of the art in affective computing, social signal processing, computer vision and machine learning fields; (2) investigate the deployment of humanoid robots as socio-emotionally smart embodied personal devices that can potentially revolutionise our ability to maintain healthier behaviours and working environments, leading to resilient communities.