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• 2025

  Predicting When and What to Explain from Multimodal Eye Tracking and Task Signals

  Wachowiak, L., Tisnikar, P., Canal, G., Coles, A., Leonetti, M. & Celiktutan, O., Mar 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 16, 1, p. 179-190 12 p.

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  • Related Feature 100%
  • Signal Tracking 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

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• 2024

  Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human–Robot Interactions?

  Wachowiak, L., Coles, A., Celiktutan, O. & Canal, G., 30 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, p. 2520-2527 8 p.

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  • Large Language Model 100%
  • Robot 16%
  • User Interaction 16%
  • Robotics Application 16%
  • Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 4 16%
  330 Downloads (Pure)

• A Taxonomy of Explanation Types and Need Indicators in Human–Agent Collaborations

  Wachowiak, L., Coles, A., Canal, G. & Celiktutan, O., 5 Jun 2024, In: International Journal of Social Robotics. 16, 7, p. 1681–1692 12 p.

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  • Agent Interaction 100%
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  • Natural Language Processing 50%
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  1 Citation (Scopus)

  316 Downloads (Pure)

• A Time Series Classification Pipeline for Detecting Interaction Ruptures in HRI Based on User Reactions

  Wachowiak, L., Tisnikar, P., Coles, A., Canal, G. & Celiktutan, O., 4 Nov 2024, ICMI 2024 - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. ACM, p. 657-665 9 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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  2 Citations (Scopus)

  238 Downloads (Pure)

• More Than Trust: Compliance in Instantaneous Human-robot Interactions

  Weerawardhana, S., Akintunde, M., Masters, P., Roberts, A., Kefalidou, G., Lu, Y., Canal, G., Lehchevska, N., Halvorsen, E., Wei, W. & Moreau, L., 30 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Embracing Human-Centered HRI. p. 1556-1563 8 p. (IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN).

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  • Biometrics 100%
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  • Behavioral Measure 100%
  • robot design 100%
  290 Downloads (Pure)

• Ontological modeling and reasoning for comparison and contrastive narration of robot plans: Extended Abstract

  Olivares-Alarcos, A., Foix, S., Borràs, J., Canal, G. & Alenyà, G., May 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Vol. 2024-May. p. 2405–2407 3 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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  • Robot 100%
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  • Ontological Model 50%
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• PlanCollabNL: Leveraging Large Language Models for Adaptive Plan Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration

  Izquierdo-Badiola, S., Canal, G., Rizzo, C. & Alenyà, G., May 2024, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, p. 17344-17350 7 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

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  • Human-Robot Interaction 100%
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  • Artificial Intelligence 50%
  • Decision-Making 25%
  • Executable Plan 25%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  435 Downloads (Pure)

• Planning for Human-Robot Collaboration Scenarios with Heterogeneous Costs and Durations

  Izquierdo-Badiola, S., Canal, G., Alenyà, G., Rizzo, C. & Coles, A., Oct 2024, ECAI 2024. p. 4410 - 4417 8 p.

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• Probabilistic Inference of Human Capabilities from Passive Observations

  Tisnikar, P., Canal, G. & Leonetti, M., 30 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) . p. 8779-8785 7 p.

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  • Human-Robot Interaction 100%
  • Probabilistic Inference 100%
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• Towards Probabilistic Planning of Explanations for Robot Navigation

  Halilovic, A., Krivić, S. & Canal, G., 19 Jul 2024, RSS 2024 Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation.

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• When Do People Want an Explanation from a Robot?

  Wachowiak, L., Fenn, A., Kamran, H., Coles, A., Celiktutan, O. & Canal, G., 11 Mar 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24). ACM, p. 752-761 10 p. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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  • Robot 100%
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  12 Citations (Scopus)

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• 2023

  A Survey of Evaluation Methods and Metrics for Explanations in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI)

  Wachowiak, L., Celiktutan, O., Coles, A. & Canal, G., 9 May 2023, Explainable Robotics Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023. 7 p.

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• Generating predicate suggestions based on the space of plans: an example of planning with preferences

  Canal, G., Torras, C. & Alenyà, G., 1 Apr 2023, In: User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 33, 2, p. 333-357 25 p.

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  • User Preference 100%
  • Task Performance 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  90 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Actor-Focused Interactive Visualization for AI Planning

  Dias Cantareira, G., Canal, G. & Borgo, R., Jun 2022, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). AAAI Press

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  • Interactive Visualization 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Analytics Tool 33%
  • Visual Analytics 33%
  • Legal Liability 33%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  131 Downloads (Pure)

• Analysing Eye Gaze Patterns during Confusion and Errors in Human–Agent Collaborations

  Wachowiak, L., Tisnikar, P., Canal, G., Coles, A., Leonetti, M. & Celiktutan, O., 2022, RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots. p. 224-229 6 p. (RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots).

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  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  606 Downloads (Pure)

• Improved Task Planning through Failure Anticipation in Human-Robot Collaboration

  Izquierdo-Badiola, S., Canal, G., Rizzo, C. & Alenyà, G., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022. p. 7875-7880 6 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

  139 Downloads (Pure)

• PlanVerb: Domain-Independent Verbalization and Summary of Task Plans

  Canal, G., Krivić, S., Luff, P. & Coles, A., 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 36(9). p. 9698-9706 9 p.

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  • Planning Algorithm 100%
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  • User Requirement 100%
  • Causal Explanation 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  463 Downloads (Pure)

• Towards Automatic State Recovery for Replanning

  Bezrucav, S.-O., Canal, G., Coles, A., Cashmore, M. & Corves, B., Jun 2022, ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Integrated Planning, Acting, and Execution (IntEx).

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• Towards Autonomous Collaborative Robots that Adapt and Explain

  Tisnikar, P., Wachowiak, L., Canal, G., Coles, A., Leonetti, M. & Celiktutan, O., 9 Jun 2022, IEEE ICRA 2022 Workshop on Prediction and Anticipation Reasoning in Human Robot Interaction.

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• 2021

  An Action Interface Manager for ROSPlan

  Bezrucav, S.-O., Canal, G., Cashmore, M. & Corves, B., 2021, 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob).

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  • Configuration File 100%
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  390 Downloads (Pure)

• Are Preferences Useful for Better Assistance?: A Physically Assistive Robotics User Study

  Canal, G., Torras, C. & Alenyà, G., Dec 2021, In: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 10, 4, p. 1-19 19 p., 3472208.

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  • User Preference 100%
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  • Human Robot Interaction 50%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  117 Downloads (Pure)

• Designing an Adaptable Benchmark and Competition Simulation for Integrated Planning and Execution

  Nemiro, L., Canal, G., Lima, O., Cashmore, M. & Roberts, M., 2021, Workshop on the International Planning Competition (WIPC).

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  • Benchmarking 100%
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• How experts explain motion planner output: a preliminary user-study to inform the design of explainable planners

  Brandao, M., Canal, G., Krivic, S., Luff, P. & Coles, A., 2021, (Accepted/In press) 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

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  • Motion Planning 100%
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  272 Downloads (Pure)

• Task-Aware Waypoint Sampling for Robotic Planning

  Keren, S., Canal, G. & Cashmore, M., 17 May 2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Vol. 31. p. 643-651 9 p.

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  2 Citations (Scopus)

  39 Downloads (Pure)

• Task Plan verbalizations with causal justifications

  Canal, G., Krivic, S., Luff, P. & Coles, A., 6 Aug 2021, ICAPS 2021 Workshop on Explainable AI Planning (XAIP).

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  • Planning Algorithm 100%
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• Towards providing explanations for robot motion planning

  Brandao, M., Canal, G., Krivic, S. & Magazzeni, D., 2021, (Accepted/In press) 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

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  • Motion Planning 100%
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• Using Plan Libraries for Improved Plan Execution

  Moraru, I., Canal, G. & Parsons, S., 2021, UKRAS21 Conference: “Robotics at home” Proceedings.

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  • Replanning 100%
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• 2020

  Building Trust in Human-Machine Partnerships

  Canal, G., Borgo, R., Coles, A., Drake, A., Huynh, T. D., Keller, P., Krivic, S., Luff, P., Mahesar, Q.-A., Moreau, L., Parsons, S., Patel, M. & Sklar, E., 1 Nov 2020, In: Computer Law & Security Review. 39, 6 p., 105489.

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  • Organizational Context 100%
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Social Context 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  520 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Probabilistic Planning for Robotics with ROSPlan

  Canal, G., Cashmore, M., Krivić, S., Alenyà, G., Magazzeni, D. & Torras, C., 2019, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 20th Annual Conference, TAROS 2019, Proceedings. Althoefer, K., Konstantinova, J. & Zhang, K. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 236-250 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11649 LNAI).

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  • Probabilistic Planning 100%
  • Robot 50%
  • Mobile Robot 50%
  • Nondeterministic Effect 50%
  • Handling Uncertainty 50%
  23 Citations (Scopus)