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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, ...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
15 years 4 months ago
Matrix Normalization for Optimal Robot Design
Good robot performance often relies upon the selection of design parameters that lead to a well conditioned Jacobian or impedance "design" matrix. In this paper, a new d...
Leo J. Stocco, S. E. Salcudean, F. Sassani
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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
GECCO
2007
Springer
163views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Interactive evolution of XUL user interfaces
We attack the problem of user fatigue by using an interactive genetic algorithm to evolve user interfaces in the XUL interface definition language. The interactive genetic algori...
Juan C. Quiroz, Sushil J. Louis, Sergiu M. Dascalu