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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 11 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
15 years 11 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
OZCHI
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Question-based group authentication
There are various situations where a distinction needs to be made between group members and outsiders. For example, to protect students in chat groups from unpleasant incidents ca...
Ann Nosseir, Richard C. H. Connor, Karen Renaud
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OZCHI
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Holding hands over a distance: technology probes in an intimate, mobile context
While apart, couples can verbally and visually communicate through existing technologies such as mobile phones, text messaging, videoconferencing and email. Yet, other important m...
Shannon O'Brien, Florian Mueller
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Stiffness and Curvature on the Haptic Identification of Surfaces
We performed experiments to investigate how humans acquire an internal representation of virtual objects through the execution of reaching movements across the object surface. Sub...
Vikram S. Chib, James L. Patton, Kevin M. Lynch, F...