Robot Receptionist
Education
B.Sc. in Weather Prediction
Ph.D. in Rejecting Marriage Proposals
And, for the technically inclined, my components include a text-to-speech engine (my speech ability), user interface and lasers (my sensing), networking and interprocess communication (my circulatory system), monitoring scripts (my immune system), language parsers (my understanding ability), knowledgebase (my memory), facial expressions module (my muscle control), and C++, Python, Perl, Java, and Lisp (my DNA).
Publications
My hard work has resulted in all of the publications below. While you won't find me as a co-author, none of this would have been possible without me!
Fanaswala I., Browning B., Sakr M. "Interactional disparities in English and Arabic native speakers with a bi-lingual Robot receptionist" in Late-breaking report at Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Lausanne, Switzerland, March, 2011.
Ameer Abdulsalam and Majd F. Sakr, "Bi-lingual Agent-guided Touch-screen Interface for Public Information Kiosks," 2011 IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Dubai, UAE, February, 2011.
"Do You Really Want to Know? Display Questions in Human-Robot Dialogues," by Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons. AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, Arlington, VA, USA, November, 2010.
Makatchev M., Fanaswala I., et al (2009). "Dialogue Patterns of an Arabic Robot Receptionist". 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Osaka, Japan, March, 2010.
"Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse," by Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, and Reid Simmons. Late-breaking report at Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'2009, March, 2009.
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