—Reading gaze direction is important in human-robot interactions as it supports, among others, joint attention and non-linguistic interaction. While most previous work focuses on...
We present HeatWave, a system that uses digital thermal imaging cameras to detect, track, and support user interaction on arbitrary surfaces. Thermal sensing has had limited exami...
Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Xiaofeng Re...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Prior work suggests that the potential benefits of mixed initiative management of multiple robots are mitigated by situational factors, including workload and operator expertise....
This paper describes a project that was carried out by Philips Corporate Design (PCD) to explore ideas for products and services, which could be part of our future in the year 200...