This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
— The ability for people to interact with robots and teach them new skills will be crucial to the successful application of robots in everyday human environments. In order to des...
—Teaching a robot new skills may require that the teacher scaffolds the teaching experience appropriately. However, due to inherent assumptions made by a human teacher the scaffo...
Social robots have to potential to serve as personal, organizational, and public assistants as, for instance, diet coaches, teacher’s aides, and emergency respondents. The succe...
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...