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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Lead me by the hand: evaluation of a direct physical interface for nursing assistant robots
—When a user is in close proximity to a robot, physical contact becomes a potentially valuable channel for communication. People often use direct physical contact to guide a pers...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
How search and its subtasks scale in N robots
The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Participants co...
Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Prasanna Velagapudi, ...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Teaching robots by moulding behavior and scaffolding the environment
Programming robots to carry out useful tasks is both a complex and non-trivial exercise. A simple and intuitive method to allow humans to train and shape robot behaviour is clearl...
Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Daut...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati