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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Robot motivator: improving user performance on a physical/mental task
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...
Juan Fasola, Maja J. Mataric
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Development of Communication Model for Social Robots Based on Mobile Service
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...
Ji-Dong Yim, Sungkuk Chun, Keechul Jung, Christoph...
CDC
2010
IEEE
186views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Contact based robot control through tactile maps
This paper deals with the problem of controlling a robot during a physical interaction through a representation of its tactile system. Although the force feedback has been widely u...
Giorgio Cannata, Simone Denei, Fulvio Mastrogiovan...
AIS
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Experimental investigation into influence of negative attitudes toward robots on human-robot interaction
Negative attitudes toward robots are considered as one of psychological factors preventing humans from interacting with robots in daily life. To verify their influence on humans&#...
Tatsuya Nomura, Takayuki Kanda, Tomohiro Suzuki
ICRA
2006
IEEE
199views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
A Sociable Robot to Encourage Social Interaction among the Elderly
— In this paper, we present evidence that although
Cory D. Kidd, Will Taggart, Sherry Turkle