Sonia Chernova and Andrea L. Thomaz.
Robot learning from human teachers.
Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 8(3):1–121, 2014.
A. L. Thomaz and M. Cakmak.
Active social learning in humans and robots.
In Kevin B. Clark, editor, Social Learning Theory: Phylogenetic considerations across animal, plant, and microbial taxa. Nova Publishers, New York, NY, 2013.
J. Lee, C. Chao, A. Bobick, and A.L. Thomaz.
Multi-cue contingency detection."
International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 4 No. 2, pg 147-161, 2012.
M.J. Gielniak and A.L. Thomaz,
"Anticipation in Robot Motion."
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2011.
M.J. Gielniak, C.K. Liu and A.L. Thomaz,
"Task-aware Variations in Robot Motion."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
J. Lee, J.F. Kieser, A.F. Bobick and A.L.Thomaz,
"Vision-based Contingency Detection."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011.
M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz,
"Mixed-Initiative Active Learning."
Presented at the ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011.
B. Akgun, M. Cakmak, J. Yoo and A.L. Thomaz,
"Augmenting Kinesthetic Teaching with Keyframes."
In Proceedings of the ICML Workshop on New Developments in Imitation Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011.
K. Subramanian, C. Isbell, and A.L.Thomaz,
“Learning options through human interaction”.
Presented at the Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers workshop at IJCAI, 2011.
P. Zang, A. Irani, P. Zhou, C.L. Isbell, and A.L. Thomaz.
"Combining function approximation, human teachers, and training regimens for real-world RL.",
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2010.
M.J. Gielniak, C.K Liu and A.L. Thomaz,
"Secondary Action in Robot Motion."
In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2010.
C. Chao, M. Cakmak, and A.L. Thomaz,
"Transparent active learning for robots."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2010.
A. L. Thomaz and C. Breazeal.
"Teachable robots: Understanding human teaching behavior to build more effective robot learners"
Artificial Intelligence Journal, 172:716-737, 2008.
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A. L. Thomaz and C. Breazeal.
"Experiments in Socially Guided Exploration: Lessons learned in building robots that learn with and without human teachers."
Connection Science, Special Issue
on Social Learning in Embodied Agents, 20(2&3), pg91-110, 2008.
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C. Breazeal, M. Berlin, A. Brooks, J. Gray, and A. L. Thomaz.
"Using perspective taking to learn from ambiguous demonstrations."
Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Issue
on Robot Programming by Demonstration, 54(5), 2006.
C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, G. Hoffman, J. Lieberman, H. Lee, A. Lockerd (Thomaz), and D. Mulanda.
"Tutelage and collaboration for humanoid robots."
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 1(2), 2004.
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A. Brooks, J. Gray, G. Hoffman, A. Lockerd (Thomaz), H. Lee, and C. Breazeal.
"Robot's play: interactive games with sociable machines."
Computers in Entertainment., 2(3):1–18, July 2004.
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C. Breazeal and A. L. Thomaz.
"Learning from human teachers with socially guided exploration."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA), 2008.
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A. L. Thomaz and C. Breazeal.
"Asymmetric Interpretations of Positive and Negative Human Feedback for a Social."
In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2007. [pdf]
A. L. Thomaz and C. Breazeal.
"Robot Learning via Socially Guided Exploration."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Developmental Learning (ICDL), 2007.
A. L. Thomaz, G. Hoffman, and C. Breazeal.
"Reinforcement Learning with Human Teachers: Understanding how people want to teach robots."
In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2006. [pdf]
A. L. Thomaz, and C. Breazeal.
"Reinforcement Learning with Human Teachers: Evidence of feedback and guidance with implications for learning performance."
In Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006. [pdf]
M.Berlin, J. Gray, A. L. Thomaz, and C. Breazeal.
"Perspective taking: An organizing principle for learning in human-robot interaction."
In Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006. [pdf]
A. L. Thomaz, and C. Breazeal.
"Transparency and Socially Guided Machine Learning."
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Developmental Learning (ICDL), 2006. [pdf]
A. L. Thomaz, G. Hoffman, and C. Breazeal.
"Experiments in Socially Guided Machine Learning: Understanding How Humans Teach."
In Proceedings of the 1st Annual conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2006.
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C. Breazeal, C. Kidd, A. L. Thomaz, G. Hoffman, and M. Berlin.
"Effects of nonverbal communication on efficiency and robustness in human-robot teamwork."
In Proceedings of the IROS, 2005. [pdf]
A. L. Thomaz, M. Berlin, and C. Breazeal.
"An embodied computational model of social referencing."
In IEEE International Workshop on Human Robot Interaction
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C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, D. Chilongo, J. Gray, G. Hoffman, C. Kidd, H. Lee, J. Lieberman, and A. Lockerd (Thomaz).
"Working collaboratively with humanoid robots."
In Proceedings of IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid
Robots (Humanoids), Santa Monica, CA, 2004.
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W. Bluethmann, R. Ambrose, M. Diftler, E. Huber, A. Fagg, M. Rosenstein, R. Platt, R. Grupen, C. Breazeal, A. Brooks, A. Lockerd (Thomaz), A. Peters, O. C. Jenkins, M. Mataric, M. Bugajska.
"Building an Autonomous Humanoid Tool User."
In Proceedings of IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid
Robots (Humanoids), Santa Monica, CA, 2004.
C. Breazeal, G. Hoffman, and A. Lockerd (Thomaz).
"Teaching and working with robots as a collaboration."
In Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1030–1037, New York, NY,
2004.
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A. Brooks, J. Gray, G. Hoffman, A. Lockerd (Thomaz), H. Lee, and C. Breazeal.
"Robot's play: interactive games with sociable machines."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer
Entertainment (ACE), June 2004.
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A. Lockerd (Thomaz) and C. Breazeal.
"Tutelage and socially guided robot learning."
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS), 2004.
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