MuMMER: MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot

EU Horizon 2020, 2016-2020

From March 2016-March 2020, I coordinated the MuMMER project, a four-year Horizon 2020 project where we will develop and test a socially intelligent robot in a public shopping mall in Finland. The partners are:

See the project website for more details about the project.

Relevant publications

Deshmukh, A. , Mazel, A. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Contextual Non-verbal Behaviour Generation for Humanoid Robot Using Text Sentiment. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), New Delhi, India, 14-18 Oct 2019.

Foster, M. E. et al. (2019) MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots in Human Environments, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 7-9 November 2019,

Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: the Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 293-300. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi: 10.1145/3284432.3284445)

Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525672)

Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525739)

Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525585)

Foster, M. E. (2018) Natural Language Generation for Public-Space Social Robots. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018.

Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. In: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-15 Jul 2018, pp. 2221-2223.

Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2017) Modulating the Non-Verbal Social Signals of a Humanoid Robot. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3143028)

Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces. In: 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), Vienna, Austria, 6-9 March 2017, pp. 105-106. ISBN 9781450348850 (doi: 10.1145/3029798.3038364)

Foster, M. E. , Alami, R., Gestranius, O., Lemon, O., Niemelä, M., Odobez, J.-M. and Pandey, A. K. (2016) The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016), Kansas City, USA, 01-03 Nov 2016, pp. 753-763. ISBN 9783319474366 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_74)

Foster, M. E. (2016) Public-space Human-robot Interaction in the MuMMER Project. The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016), New York, NY, USA, 27 Aug 2016.