Frank Broz

I'm a research fellow in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire. My research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning, planning, and human-robot interaction. I'm currently working on infant-like social interactions between a human and a humanoid robot motivated by developmentally plausible intrinsic drives (this work is part of the RobotCub project). I'm looking at the role of mutual gaze in social interaction and how to represent the timing relationships of basic interactive behaviors such as imitation and turn-taking.

Before coming to England, I did my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, co-advised by Reid Simmons and Illah Nourbakhsh. My thesis research was on the design of time-dependent POMDP models to produce policies that allowed an agent to interact with people in an appropriate manner in ambiguous socially situated tasks. If you're interested, you can find the full document here.

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Recent Publications:

Refereed Conference Papers:

• F. Broz, I. Nourbakhsh, R. Simmons. "Planning for Human-Robot Interaction Using Time-State Aggregated POMDPs", Proceedings of AAAI 2008. (PDF)

Workshop and Symposium Papers:

• F. Broz, "POMDP Planning for Socially Situated Tasks in HRI", NEWHRI Workshop, ICRA 2008. (PDF)

For a full publication list, visit my old CMU home page.