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SOCROB
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Do Social Robots Walk or Roll?
Abstract. There is a growing trend of social robots to move into the human environment. This research is set up to find the trends within social robotic designs. A sample of socia...
Selene Chew, Willie Tay, Danielle Smit, Christoph ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
iCat: an affective game buddy based on anticipatory mechanisms
In this paper, we study the role of emotions and expressive behaviour in socially interactive characters employed in educational games. More specifically, on how we can use such e...
Iolanda Leite, Carlos Martinho, André Perei...
AISB
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social Robotics and the person problem
Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about t...
Stephen J. Cowley
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The RUBI project: a progress report
The goal of the RUBI project is to accelerate progress in the development of social robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of new scientifi...
Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel,...
ACHI
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding Social Robots
Research on social robots is mainly comprised of research into algorithmic problems in order to expand a robot´s capabilities to improve communication with human beings. Also, a ...
Frank Hegel, Claudia Muhl, Britta Wrede, Martina H...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Daily HRI evaluation at a classroom environment: reports from dance interaction experiments
The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Classes of Applications for Social Robots: A User Study
– The paper introduces an online user study on applications for social robots with 127 participants. The potential users proposed 570 application scenarios based on the appearanc...
Frank Hegel, Monja Lohse, Agnes Swadzba, Sven Wach...
IJCNN
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Robotic Architecture Inspired on Behavior Analysis
Learning by human tutelage means that a human being guides the attention of a robot or agent in order to teach it a given concept. This kind of learning is very important to devel...
Claudio A. Policastro, Roseli A. F. Romero, Giovan...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel, Javier R. Movellan
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Field trial for simultaneous teleoperation of mobile social robots
Simultaneous teleoperation of mobile, social robots presents unique challenges, combining the real-time demands of conversation with the prioritized scheduling of navigational tas...
Dylan F. Glas, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, N...