Ostensive-Inferential Communication

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Table of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
I Introduction
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivations
1.2 Research Approach
1.3 Thesis Outline
1.4 Contributions
1.5 Publications
1.6 The Animatas Project
II Background and Related Work
2 Cognition and Communication
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Code Model
2.3 Theory of Mind
2.4 Social- and Task Channel
2.5 Ostensive-Inferential Communication
2.6 Sensorimotor Communication
3 Approaches to Robot Learning
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Robots as Embodied Agents
3.3 Overview of Approaches to Robot Learning
3.4 Reinforcement Learning
3.5 Learning from Demonstration
4 Teaching Machines and Robots
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Pedagogy
4.3 Machine Teaching
4.4 Humans Teaching Robots
5 Observer Related Metrics
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Legibility
5.3 Predictability
III Implementation of Research
6 Communication Model
6.1 Introduction
6.2 General Communication Model
6.3 Specific Approach
6.3.1 Specific Model
6.3.2 Model Application to Implemented Research
7 User Study on Human Teaching Behavior Towards Robots in a Sensorimotor Task
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Study
7.2.1 Overview
7.2.2 Experiment 1
7.2.3 Experiment 2
7.3 Conclusion
8 Augmenting RL with Social Channel Usage
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Integrating Observer Feedback on Legibility into Interactive RL
8.2.1 Interactive RL
8.2.2 Legibility
8.2.3 Modeling the Observer
8.3 Experiments
8.3.1 Environment 1
8.3.2 Environments 2 – 5
8.4 Discussion
8.5 Conclusion
9 Discussion and Conclusion
9.1 Summary of Contributions
9.2 General Limitations of the Approach
9.3 Perspectives
9.4 Conclusion
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