HRIWeb.org

It's been a while since posting anything. Getting content together for the site has been more difficult than I expected, but an HRI-related seminar this semester at Washington University should generate some interesting discussions which we'll post about here.

Meanwhile, I've been looking at interaction modeling with Bayes nets this summer, and reading a great deal. I've had some success with toy data and simulated Freeze Tag; in the next couple weeks, we'll be gathering some data of real people playing games to work with, and hopefully some more direct interaction data of a robot negotiating a hallway.

The CVBase data set has some potentially useful footage of handball, squash, and basketball. It's not fully annotated though, which may be a pain to deal with. I've also found some useful research in the work of Chris Needham, which is rather different from what I'm looking at, but may still be very helpful.

The main robot I work with (a B21r) unfortunately has a broken part at the moment. This has actually had a useful upshot, in that it's forced me to look more at using simulation this summer. My Matlab skills have greatly improved over the past couple months...