We are pleased to announce that a research team led by Dr.Eng Nichols and Dr. Gomez has won theIROS 2021 Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award for our research on collaborative storytelling which allows people to create unique stories with Haru, the Social robot.

Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots.
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez.
The 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021).

Please see the following open access papers for more information:

Collaborative Storytelling with Large-scale Neural Language Models.
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Randy Gomez.
MIG ’20: Motion, Interaction and Games.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3424636.3426903

Design and Analysis of a Collaborative Story Generation Game for Social Robots.
Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez.
Frontiers In Computer Science. Language and Vision in Robotics: Emerging Neural and On-Device Approaches (to appear).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.674333/abstract