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About
Chinmaya Mishra is a leading researcher at the intersection of social robotics and affective computing, with a primary focus on endowing robots with human-like non-verbal communication and emotional intelligence. His work addresses the critical challenge of making human-robot interaction (HRI) more natural and intuitive. Mishra’s most impactful contribution is his pioneering work on real-time emotion generation in dialogue, where he leverages large language models to enable social robots to express affective states, a paper that has garnered 70 citations and signals a major advance in the field. He has also made significant strides in automating robot gaze behavior, developing planning-based architectures that allow robots to use gaze cues for turn-taking and joint attention, a contribution cited 17 times. Further exploring the nuances of non-verbal communication, Mishra has investigated how a robot’s gaze aversion influences human behavior, and has worked on pseudo-randomization techniques to make robot actions less predictable and more natural. With a career spanning from precise outdoor robot localization using sensor fusion to the perception of emotions in robot faces, Mishra’s research is foundational for creating socially adept robots capable of genuine, engaging interaction.
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- 3Does a robot’s gaze aversion affect human gaze aversion?9 citations · 2023
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