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HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Socially distributed perception
This paper presents a robot search task (social tag) that uses social interaction, in the form of asking for help, as an integral component of task completion. We define socially...
Marek P. Michalowski, Carl F. DiSalvo, Dída...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
How contingent should a communication robot be?
The purpose of our research is to develop lifelike behavior in a communication robot, which is expected to potentially make human-robot interaction more natural. Our previous rese...
Fumitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Empirical results from using a comfort level device in human-robot interaction studies
This paper describes an extensive analysis of the comfort level data of 7 subjects with respect to 12 robot behaviours as part of a human-robot interaction trial. This includes ro...
Kheng Lee Koay, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah Woods, M...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A model for imitating human reaching movements
We present a model of human-like reaching movements. This model is then used to give a humanoid robot the ability to imitate human reaching motions. It illustrates that having a r...
Micha Hersch, Aude Billard
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Effects of adaptive robot dialogue on information exchange and social relations
Human-robot interaction could be improved by designing robots that engage in adaptive dialogue with users. An adaptive robot could estimate the information needs of individuals an...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Matthew Marge, Susan...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Effects of head movement on perceptions of humanoid robot behavior
This paper examines human perceptions of humanoid robot behavior, specifically how perception is affected by variations in head tracking behavior under constant gestural behavior....
Emily Wang, Constantine Lignos, Ashish Vatsal, Bri...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 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
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Encouraging physical therapy compliance with a hands-Off mobile robot
This paper presents results toward our ongoing research program into hands-off assistive human-robot interaction [6]. Our work has focused on applications of socially assistive r...
Rachel Gockley, Maja J. Mataric
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Developer oriented visualisation of a robot program
Robot programmers are faced with the challenging problem of understanding the robot’s view of its world, both when creating and when debugging robot software. As a result tools ...
T. H. J. Collett, B. A. MacDonald