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HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Recognizing engagement in human-robot interaction
—Based on a study of the engagement process between humans, we have developed and implemented an initial computational model for recognizing engagement between a human and a huma...
Charles Rich, Brett Ponsleur, Aaron Holroyd, Canda...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The advisor robot: tracing people's mental model from a robot's physical attributes
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in peopleâ...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler
IWANN
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Vision-Based Walking Parameter Estimation for Biped Locomotion Imitation
Abstract. This paper proposes a new vision-based system that can extract walking parameters from human demonstration. The system uses only a non-calibrated USB webcam connected to ...
Juan Pedro Bandera Rubio, Changjiu Zhou, Francisco...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
121views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting angular momentum to enhance bipedal center-of-mass control
Abstract— Recent humanoid control investigations have emphasized the importance of controlling whole-body angular momentum throughout a movement task. For typical movement tasks,...
Andreas Hofmann, Marko B. Popovic, Hugh M. Herr
CE
2007
133views more  CE 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to signiï¬cantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims