Papers
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Total Citations
345
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About
Felix Warneken is a prominent researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a particular focus on cooperative systems, shared intentionality, and the cognitive architectures that enable robots to collaborate meaningfully with humans. His most influential work explores how robots can ground referents, interpret shared plans, and engage in adaptive, open-ended tasks alongside human partners — challenges that sit at the intersection of cognitive science, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Warneken's most-cited contribution, "Which one? Grounding the referent based on efficient human-robot interaction" (2010, 73 citations), demonstrates his commitment to building robots capable of natural communicative exchange. His foundational paper on shared intentions (2009, 63 citations) examines the cognitive basis for cooperation across both human and robotic systems. Through the multi-part CHRIS platform series, he helped develop a comprehensive, platform-independent framework for cooperative HRI — spanning perception, action execution, imitation, and plan communication via gaze and speech — accumulating over 140 citations across the series. His body of work, totaling over 330 citations, has meaningfully advanced the field's understanding of how robots can learn, adapt, and communicate within genuinely cooperative human contexts, making him a key figure in socially intelligent robotics research.
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- 1Which one? Grounding the referent based on efficient human-robot interaction73 citations · 2010
- 2The basis of shared intentions in human and robot cognition63 citations · 2009
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- 7Human-Robot Cooperation Based on Interaction Learning18 citations · 2009
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- 9Solving ambiguities with perspective taking11 citations · 2010
- 10Solving ambiguities with perspective taking10 citations · 2010