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IWC
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Exploring the design space of robots: Children's perspectives
Children's perceptions and evaluations of different robot designs are an important unexplored area within robotics research considering that many robots are specifically desi...
Sarah Woods
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
A robot companion for inclusive games: A user-centred design perspective
— This article presents the design of Iromec, a modular robot companion tailored towards engaging in social exchanges with children with different disabilities with the aim to em...
Patrizia Marti, Leonardo Giusti
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring the space of near-future design with children
This paper describes a series of user-centred design sessions conducted with children of varying ages to explore near-future applications of sensor-based technologies. We explain ...
Mark Stringer, Eric Harris, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
A quadratic regulator-based heuristic for rapidly exploring state space
Abstract— Kinodynamic planning algorithms like RapidlyExploring Randomized Trees (RRTs) hold the promise of finding feasible trajectories for rich dynamical systems with complex...
Elena Leah Glassman, Russ Tedrake
ISER
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Super Mechano-System: New Perspective for Versatile Robotic System
: This paper discusses the general concept of the Super Mechano-System, or SMS and its anticipated applications. The SMS is a new type of robot system, which can transform its shap...
Shigeo Hirose