To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
This paperintroduces the notion of “universalinteraction,” allowing a device to adapt its functionality to exploit services it discovers as it moves into a new environment. Us...
Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schre...
Abstract— In this paper we provide a possible characterisation of user behaviour based on an analysis of a corpus of human-robot communication, collected by using the Wizard-of-O...
Two current trends in distributed computing are the emergence of standardised distributed object platforms such as CORBA, and the increasing use of continuous media data types. Th...
An ambient user interface is a set of hidden intelligent interfaces that recognize user's presence and provides services to immediate needs. There are several research activit...