PhD Thesis-related Material

The title of my PhD Thesis at the MIT Media Lab is: "Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants". Related material, some of which is also referenced within the thesis, can be found on this page.

PhD Thesis document (pdf)

Accompanying video (realvideo)

Video of the thesis defence part (part 1 realvideo) (part 2 realvideo) (part 3 realvideo)

Presentation (pdf)

 

General Exams papers:

Costraints for cross-species intention recognition and feeling / desire communication (pdf)

A near-minimal grounded situation model design for a conversational robot that can pass the tokent test (pdf)

Pathways towards human action and the proposal of the Human Activity Language (pdf)

 

Other documents:

To ask or to sense? Planning to integrate speech and sensorimotor acts. Draft, Nikolaos Mavridis and Deb Roy, 2004 (pdf)

Grounding Ontologies. Draft, Nikolaos Mavridis, 2006 (pdf)

Inverse Kinematics for Ripley. Progress Report, Nikolaos Mavridis, 2004 (pdf)

Quantifying GSM performance through the flock of birds sensors. UROP Project Report, Stephen Oney, 2004 (pdf)

Human Hand Event Detection for Ripley. AUP Project Report, Marjorie Cheng, 2006 (pdf)

 

Videos:

The main GSM demo video w introduction (realvideo)

Ripley before situation models (realvideo) [Thanks to Kai-yuh Hsiao of the Cognitive Machines]

A video demo of Voxelizer: Voxelized shape models through multiple views for Ripley the Robot (realvideo)

A video demo of Hand Detection for Ripley the Robot (realvideo)