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HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
A study of three interfaces allowing non-expert users to teach new visual objects to a robot and their impact on learning effici
We developed three interfaces to allow non-expert users to teach name for new visual objects and compare them through user's studies in term of learning efficiency.
Pierre Rouanet, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, David Filliat
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Interactive story creation for knowledge acquisition
Abstract--This paper proposes an agent system that semiautomatically creates stories about daily events detected by ubiquitous sensors. These stories are knowledge of inhabitants&#...
Shohei Yoshioka, Takuya Maekawa, Yasushi Hirano, S...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Practical evaluation of robots for elderly in denmark: an overview
Robots for elderly have drawn a great deal of attention as it is a controversial topic being pushed forward by the fact that there will be a dramatic increase of elderly in most we...
Søren Tranberg Hansen, Hans Jørgen A...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Towards industrial robots with human-like moral responsibilities
—Robots do not have any capability of taking moral responsibility. At the same time industrial robotics is entering a new era with “intelligent” robots sharing workbench with...
Baran Çürüklü, Gordana Dodig...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Pointing to space: modeling of deictic interaction referring to regions
In daily conversation, we sometimes observe a deictic interaction scene that refers to a region in a space, such as saying "please put it over there" with pointing. How c...
Yasuhiko Hato, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Mich...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Towards robust human robot collaboration in industrial environments
In this paper a system, which is driven through natural language, that allows operators to select and manipulate objects in the environment using an industrial robot is proposed. I...
Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Gi...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The hesitation of a robot: a delay in its motion increases learning efficiency and impresses humans as teachable
If robots learn new actions through human-robot interaction, it is important that the robots can utilize rewards as well as instructions to reduce humans' efforts. Additionall...
Kazuaki Tanaka, Motoyuki Ozeki, Natsuki Oka
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
iForgot: a model of forgetting in robotic memories
—Much effort has focused in recent years on developing more life-like robots. In this paper we propose a model of memory for robots, based on human digital memories, though our m...
Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Jer Hayes