Hui Shi
Papers
11
Total Citations
102
H-Index
6
About
Hui Shi is a researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of human-robot interaction, natural language processing, and qualitative spatial reasoning. Over the course of the 2000s, Shi made significant contributions to the challenge of enabling robots and intelligent systems — including mobile robots and wheelchairs — to understand and act upon natural human navigation instructions. Her most cited work, "Towards Dialogue Based Shared Control of Navigating Robots" (2005, 28 citations), established a foundational framework for using dialogue as a mechanism for shared control, a theme she pursued across multiple publications. A particularly notable contribution is her development of the Conceptual Route Graph, a user-centered qualitative spatial model that allows robots to interpret route instructions with human-like conceptual understanding, detailed in papers spanning 2007 to 2010. Shi also advanced formal methods for dialogue management in safety-critical shared-control systems, addressing robustness and user-friendliness simultaneously. Her empirical approach — grounding computational models in human behavioral studies — gave her work both practical relevance and theoretical depth. With over 80 cumulative citations, Shi's research helped lay important groundwork for the intuitive, language-driven robot navigation systems that continue to develop today.
Research Focus
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Top Papers
- 1Towards Dialogue Based Shared Control of Navigating Robots28 citations · 2005
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- 3Interpreting Route Instructions as Qualitative Spatial Actions12 citations · 2007
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- 6A Safe and Robust Approach to Shared-Control via Dialogue8 citations · 2004
- 7Developing Human-Robot Dialogue Management Formally6 citations · 2005
- 8Negotiating Spatial Goals with a Wheelchair5 citations · 2007
- 9Formalising control in robust spoken dialogue systems5 citations · 2005
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