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ICRA
2002
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements for Humanlike Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger
Human motion can provide a rich source of examples for use in robot grasping and manipulation. Adapting human examples to a robot manipulator is a difficult problem, however, in ...
Nancy S. Pollard, Richards C. Gilbert
ICMI
2003
Springer
82views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
The role of spoken feedback in experiencing multimodal interfaces as human-like
If user interfaces should be made human-like vs. tool-like has been debated in the HCI field, and this debate affects the development of multimodal interfaces. However, little emp...
Pernilla Qvarfordt, Arne Jönsson, Nils Dahlb&...
TROB
2008
140views more  TROB 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Analysis of Humanoid Appearances in Human-Robot Interaction
- It is important to identify how much the appearance of a humanoid robot affects human behaviors toward it. We compared participants' impressions of and behaviors toward two ...
Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Taku Osada, Yu...
CORR
2010
Springer
169views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks: Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics
The semi-automatic or automatic synthesis of robot controller software is both desirable and challenging. Synthesis of rather simple behaviors such as collision avoidance by apply...
Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmick...
AR
2005
115views more  AR 2005»
13 years 5 months ago
Insights toward robot-assisted evacuation
This paper discusses the application of robotic technologies to an evacuation assistance task. We describe how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue ...
Dylan A. Shell, Maja J. Mataric