Amy Isard
Papers
9
Total Citations
283
H-Index
8
About
Amy Isard is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, specializing in socially intelligent robotics, dialogue systems, and situated language processing. Her most influential work, "Two people walk into a bar" (92 citations), introduces a humanoid robot bartender capable of managing dynamic, multi-party social settings through integrated computer vision, linguistic processing, and high-level reasoning. This system became a platform for exploring whether service robots must exhibit socially appropriate behavior, as demonstrated in her 2013 study (64 citations) comparing task-based and socially intelligent interaction. Isard's contributions extend to cooperative dialogue systems, where she evaluated description and reference strategies for human-robot collaboration in construction tasks (40 citations), and adaptive virtual environments, such as a self-tailoring museum gallery in Second Life (31 citations). Her work on situated reference generation (21 citations) and context-sensitive referring expressions (15 citations) has advanced how robots communicate in embodied, interactive contexts. Isard's research has been recognized for its impact on designing robots that seamlessly blend task efficiency with social awareness, making her a key figure in the development of autonomous, human-aware service robots.
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Top Papers
- 1Two people walk into a bar92 citations · 2012
- 2Comparing task-based and socially intelligent behaviour in a robot bartender64 citations · 2013
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- 4Building an adaptive museum gallery in Second Life31 citations · 2008
- 5Situated reference in a hybrid human-robot interaction system21 citations · 2010
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- 8Handling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction8 citations · 2014
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