In 1989, and again in 1993, panels of database researchers were surveyed about which research areas they considered promising. In both cases, the area of user interfaces was chose...
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
—Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap and well equipped but suffer from other diffi...
Abstract. Dealing with methods of Human-Robot-Interaction and using a real mobile robot, stable methods for people detection and tracking are fundamental features of such a system ...
The growing presence of household robots in inhabited environments arises the need for new robot task planning techniques. These techniques should take into consideration not only...
Marcello Cirillo, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffio...