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HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
CALLY: the cell-phone robot with affective expressions
This poster describes a robot cell-phone named CALLY with which we are exploring the roles of facial and gestural expressions of robotic products in the human computer interaction...
Ji-Dong Yim, Christopher D. Shaw
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A preliminary system for recognizing boredom
A 3D optical flow tracking system was used to track participants as they watched a series of boring videos. The video stream of the participants was rated for boredom events. Rati...
Allison M. Jacobs, Benjamin R. Fransen, J. Malcolm...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Providing route directions: design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing
Providing route directions is a complicated interaction. Utterances are combined with gestures and pronounced with appropriate timing. This study proposes a model for a robot that...
Yusuke Okuno, Takayuki Kanda, Michita Imai, Hirosh...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
comforTABLE: a robotic environment for aging in place
Keith Evan Green, Ian D. Wakjer, Johnell O. Brooks...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Footing in human-robot conversations: how robots might shape participant roles using gaze cues
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Bilge Mutlu, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiro...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a design method for expressive robots
Autonomous robots tend to induce the perception of a personality through their behavior and appearance. It has been suggested that the personality of a robot can be used as a desi...
Bernt Meerbeek, Martin Saerbeck, Christoph Bartnec...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using bio-electrical signals to influence the social behaviours of domesticated robots
Several emerging computer devices read bio-electrical signals (e.g., electro-corticographic signals, skin biopotential or facial muscle tension) and translate them into computer- ...
Paul Saulnier, Ehud Sharlin, Saul Greenberg
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Probo: a testbed for human robot interaction
The concept of the huggable robot Probo is a result of the desire to improve the living conditions of children in hospital environment. These children need distraction and lots of...
Kristof Goris, Jelle Saldien, Dirk Lefeber
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Planning as an architectural control mechanism
We describe recent work on PECAS, an architecture for intelligent robotics that supports multi-modal interaction. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.8 [Computing Methodologies...
Nick Hawes, Michael Brenner, Kristoffer Sjö&o...
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The oz of wizard: simulating the human for interaction research
The Wizard of Oz experiment method has a long tradition of acceptance and use within the field of human-robot interaction. The community has traditionally downplayed the importanc...
Aaron Steinfeld, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brian Sc...