Understanding Everyday Activities

Narrative Objects

Excerpt2: A recurring theme of AI research has turned out to be that what should be easy often is not. Consider this question – "what can I cut a stick of butter with?" You probably already thought of an answer, and if pressed, you could invent more creative ones. A string might do, or the edge of a glass perhaps if no knife is available – though you might protest if I suggested a jar's edge. It will be annoying to get the butter rests out of the threading.

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Mihai Pomarlan, UHB. A recurring theme of AI research has turned out to be that what should be easy often is not. Consider this question – "what can I cut a stick of butter...

Deep Understanding of Everyday Activity Commands

Excerpt2: Performing household activities such as cooking and cleaning have, until recently, been the exclusive provenance of human participants. However, the development of robotic agents that can perform different tasks of increasing complexity is slowly changing this state of affairs, creating new opportunities in the domain of household robotics. Most commonly, any robot activity starts with the robot receiving directions or commands for that specific activity. Today, this is mostly done via programming languages or pre-defined user interfaces, but this changes rapidly.

autore: Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka et al.

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Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka, et al., UHB. Performing household activities such as cooking and cleaning have, until recently, been the exclusive provenance of human participants....

Curiosity-Driven Exploration of Pouring Liquids

Excerpt2: Babies, puppies, kittens may be bundles of joy but they are also agents of pure chaos. They knock things over, stick their fingers where they're not supposed to, and get a taste or sniff of anything they can, all just for fun of course. Or is it "just for fun"? In the moment, it is, but this playfulness of infants also allows them to build the intuitive models of the physical world which are needed to cope with that world "seriously".

autore: Mihai Pomarlan, UHB.

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Mihai Pomarlan, UHB. Babies, puppies, kittens may be bundles of joy but they are also agents of pure chaos. They knock things over, stick their fingers where they're not supposed...

Toward a formal theory of narratives

Excerpt2: The activities of people as well as of artificial agents in reality, virtual reality or simulation can be recorded as data that discretize trajectories of body parts and the ensuing force events. While these data provide vast amounts of information they are, by themselves, meaningless.

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Robert Porzel, UHB. The activities of people as well as of artificial agents in reality, virtual reality or simulation can be recorded as data that discretize trajectories of...