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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 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...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Laugh enhancer using laugh track synchronized with the user's laugh motion
In television shows, we are familiar with the sound of artificial laughter, the so called “canned laughter” or “laugh track”. It generally has an enhancing effect on the v...
Shogo Fukushima, Yuki Hashimoto, Takashi Nozawa, H...
HRI
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Incremental learning of gestures by imitation in a humanoid robot
We present an approach to teach incrementally human gestures to a humanoid robot. The learning process consists of first projecting the movement data in a latent space and encodin...
Sylvain Calinon, Aude Billard
ICRA
2010
IEEE
164views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Biomimetic motor behavior for simultaneous adaptation of force, impedance and trajectory in interaction tasks
— Interaction of a robot with dynamic environments would require continuous adaptation of force and impedance, which is generally not available in current robot systems. In contr...
Ganesh Gowrishankar, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Haru...
ICMI
2004
Springer
235views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
Multimodal detection of human interaction events in a nursing home environment
In this paper, we propose a multimodal system for detecting human activity and interaction patterns in a nursing home. Activities of groups of people are firstly treated as intera...
Datong Chen, Robert Malkin, Jie Yang