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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
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...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
DAGM
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
How to Find Interesting Locations in Video: A Spatiotemporal Interest Point Detector Learned from Human Eye Movements
Interest point detection in still images is a well-studied topic in computer vision. In the spatiotemporal domain, however, it is still unclear which features indicate useful inter...
Wolf Kienzle, Bernhard Schölkopf, Felix A. Wi...
USAB
2008
13 years 7 months ago
How Image Based Factors and Human Factors Contribute to Threat Detection Performance in X-Ray Aviation Security Screening
The present study examines the relative importance of a series of known and expected factors that highly affect threat detection performance in aviation security X-ray screening. E...
Anton Bolfing, Tobias Halbherr, Adrian Schwaninger
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Touch Me, Hit Me and I Know How You Feel: A Design Approach to Emotionally Rich Interaction
In this paper we propose a 3-step method for designing emotionally rich interactions, illustrated by the design of an alarm clock. By emotionally rich interaction we understand in...
Stephan Wensveen, Kees Overbeeke, J. P. Djajadinin...