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Accurate prediction of human behavior is crucial for effective human-robot interaction (HRI) systems, especially in dynamic environments where real-time decisions are essential. This paper addresses the challenge of forecasting future human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wentao Gao , Cheng Zhou

Human-AI collaboration requires AI agents to understand human behavior for effective coordination. While advances in foundation models show promising capabilities in understanding and showing human-like behavior, their application in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Shinas Shaji , Teena Chakkalayil Hassan , Sebastian Houben , Alex Mitrevski

We seek measurable properties of AI agents that make them better or worse teammates from the subjective perspective of human collaborators. Our experiments use the cooperative card game Hanabi -- a common benchmark for AI-teaming research.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ho Chit Siu , Jaime D. Peña , Yutai Zhou , Ross E. Allen

Prior plays an important role in providing the plausible constraint on human motion. Previous works design motion priors following a variety of paradigms under different circumstances, leading to the lack of versatility. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jiachen Xu , Min Wang , Jingyu Gong , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

AI systems are often used to make or contribute to important decisions in a growing range of applications, including criminal justice, hiring, and medicine. Since these decisions impact human lives, it is important that the AI systems act…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Duncan C McElfresh , Lok Chan , Kenzie Doyle , Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , Vincent Conitzer , Jana Schaich Borg , John P Dickerson

Present bias, the tendency to overvalue immediate rewards while undervaluing future ones, is a well-known barrier to achieving long-term goals. As artificial intelligence and behavioral economics increasingly focus on this phenomenon, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yasunori Akagi , Hideaki Kim , Takeshi Kurashima

A longstanding goal of artificial intelligence is to create artificial agents capable of learning to perform tasks that require sequential decision making. Importantly, while it is the artificial agent that learns and acts, it is still up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ruohan Zhang , Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

The true potential of human-AI collaboration lies in exploiting the complementary capabilities of humans and AI to achieve a joint performance superior to that of the individual AI or human, i.e., to achieve complementary team performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Max Schemmer , Andrea Bartos , Philipp Spitzer , Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jonas Liebschner , Gerhard Satzger

This paper presents a method for estimating parameters that form a general model for human pilot response for specific tasks. The human model is essential for the dynamic analysis of piloted vehicles. Data are generated on a simulator with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Harrison M. Bonner , Matthew R. Kirchner

Whether in groups of humans or groups of computer agents, collaboration is most effective between individuals who have the ability to coordinate on a joint strategy for collective action. However, in general a rational actor will only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Peter M. Krafft , Chris L. Baker , Alex Pentland , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

The development of automated vehicles has the potential to revolutionize transportation, but they are currently unable to ensure a safe and time-efficient driving style. Reliable models predicting human behavior are essential for overcoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Julian F. Schumann , Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan , Jens Kober , Gustav Markkula , Arkady Zgonnikov

Humans are highly adaptable, swiftly switching between different modes to progressively handle different tasks, situations and contexts. In Human-object interaction (HOI) activities, these modes can be attributed to two mechanisms: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hung Tran , Vuong Le , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

An important feature of pervasive, intelligent assistance systems is the ability to dynamically adapt to the current needs of their users. Hence, it is critical for such systems to be able to recognize those goals and needs based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Nils Wilken , Lea Cohausz , Johannes Schaum , Stefan Lüdtke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Learning for animals or humans is the process that leads to behaviors better adapted to the environment. This process highly depends on the individual that learns and is usually observed only through the individual's actions. This article…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Julien Aubert , Louis Köhler , Luc Lehéricy , Giulia Mezzadri , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

The recent revolution of intelligent systems made it possible for robots and autonomous systems to work alongside humans, collaborating with them and supporting them in many domains. It is undeniable that this interaction can have huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Basel Alhaji , Andreas Rausch , Michael Prilla

An implicit expectation of asking users to rate agents, such as an AI decision-aid, is that they will use only relevant information -- ask them about an agent's benevolence, and they should consider whether or not it was kind. Behavioral…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Nikolos Gurney , David Pynadath , Ning Wang

Human motion prediction is an important and challenging topic that has promising prospects in efficient and safe human-robot-interaction systems. Currently, the majority of the human motion prediction algorithms are based on deterministic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jie Xu , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan , Nanning Zheng

Many of us researchers take extra measures to control for known-unknowns. However, unknown-unknowns can, at best, be negligible, but otherwise, they could produce unreliable data that might have dire consequences in real-life downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Snehesh Shrestha , Ge Gao , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Generating human-like behavior on robots is a great challenge especially in dexterous manipulation tasks with robotic hands. Scripting policies from scratch is intractable due to the high-dimensional control space, and training policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zihan Ding , Yuanpei Chen , Allen Z. Ren , Shixiang Shane Gu , Qianxu Wang , Hao Dong , Chi Jin

Data-driven algorithmic matching systems promise to help human decision makers make better matching decisions in a wide variety of high-stakes application domains, such as healthcare and social service provision. However, existing systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez , Nina Corvelo Benz , Suhas Thejaswi , Nuria Oliver , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez