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IUI
2012
ACM
12 years 4 days ago
Airwriting: demonstrating mobile text input by 3D-space handwriting
We demonstrate our airwriting interface for mobile handsfree text entry. The interface enables a user to input text into a computer by writing in the air like on an imaginary blac...
Christoph Amma, Tanja Schultz
HRI
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
Designing persuasive robots: how robots might persuade people using vocal and nonverbal cues
Social robots have to potential to serve as personal, organizational, and public assistants as, for instance, diet coaches, teacher’s aides, and emergency respondents. The succe...
Vijay Chidambaram, Yueh-Hsuan Chiang, Bilge Mutlu
HRI
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
A prototyping environment for interaction between a human and a robotic multi-agent system
In this paper we describe our prototyping environment to study concepts for empowering a single user to control robotic multi-agent systems. We investigate and validate these conc...
Michael Lichtenstern, Martin Frassl, Bernhard Peru...
HRI
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
ROS and Rosbridge: roboticists out of the loop
The advent of ROS, the Robot Operating System, has finally made it possible to implement and use state-of-the-art navigation and manipulation algorithms on widely-available, inex...
Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay, Sarah Osentoski, O...
HRI
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
How to use non-linguistic utterances to convey emotion in child-robot interaction
Vocal affective displays are vital for achieving engaging and effective Human-Robot Interaction. The same can be said for linguistic interaction also, however, while emphasis ma...
Robin Read, Tony Belpaeme
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
iBAT: detecting anomalous taxi trajectories from GPS traces
GPS-equipped taxis can be viewed as pervasive sensors and the large-scale digital traces produced allow us to reveal many hidden “facts” about the city dynamics and human beha...
Daqing Zhang, Nan Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Chao Chen, Lin...
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Understanding my data, myself: supporting self-reflection with ubicomp technologies
We live in a world where many kinds of data about us can be collected and more will be collected as Ubicomp technologies mature. People reflect on this data using different tools ...
Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Promoting intergenerational communication through location-based asynchronous video communication
We describe the design and field evaluation of the Serendipitous Family Stories system, a web and mobile service that allows for videos to be saved in user-specified real-world lo...
Frank R. Bentley, Santosh Basapur, Sujoy Kumar Cho...