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IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services
— Robots that operate in the real world will make mistakes. Thus, those who design and build systems will need to understand how best to provide ways for robots to mitigate those...
Min Kyung Lee, Sara Kielser, Jodi Forlizzi, Siddha...
KI
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Towards Automatic Manipulation Action Planning for Service Robots
A service robot should be able to automatically plan manipulation actions to help people in domestic environments. Following the classic senseplan-act cycle, in this paper we prese...
Steffen W. Ruehl, Zhixing Xue, Thilo Kerscher, R&u...
AROBOTS
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
First steps toward natural human-like HRI
Natural human-like human-robot interaction (NHL-HRI) requires the robot to be skilled both at recognizing and producing many subtle human behaviors, often taken for granted by hum...
Matthias Scheutz, Paul W. Schermerhorn, James F. K...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...