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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Providing route directions: design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing
Providing route directions is a complicated interaction. Utterances are combined with gestures and pronounced with appropriate timing. This study proposes a model for a robot that...
Yusuke Okuno, Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai, Hirosh...
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
11 years 7 months ago
On the naturalness of software
—Natural languages like English are rich, complex, and powerful. The highly creative and graceful use of languages like English and Tamil, by masters like Shakespeare and Avvaiya...
Abram Hindle, Earl T. Barr, Zhendong Su, Mark Gabe...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
190views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel, Javier R. Movellan
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Learning online discussion structures by conditional random fields
Online forum discussions are emerging as valuable information repository, where knowledge is accumulated by the interaction among users, leading to multiple threads with structure...
Hongning Wang, Chi Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Jiawei H...
CHI
1993
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces
An evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An initial experiment showed that earcons were better th...
Stephen A. Brewster, Peter C. Wright, Alistair D. ...