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AISB
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social Robotics and the person problem
Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about t...
Stephen J. Cowley
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...
IJMMS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Persuasive robotic assistant for health self-management of older adults: Design and evaluation of social behaviors
Daily health self-management, such as the harmonization of food, exercise and medication, is a major problem for a large group of older adults with obesity or diabetics. Computer-...
Rosemarijn Looije, Mark A. Neerincx, Fokie Cnossen
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
AROBOTS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
A Social Robot that Stands in Line
Recent research in mobile robot navigation make it feasible to utilize autonomous robots in service fields. But, such applications require more than just navigation. To operate in...
Yasushi Nakauchi, Reid G. Simmons