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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Judging a bot by its cover: an experiment on expectation setting for personal robots
—Managing user expectations of personal robots becomes particularly challenging when the end-user just wants to know what the robot can do, and neither understands nor cares abou...
Steffi Paepcke, Leila Takayama
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
I am my robot: the impact of robot-building and robot form on operators
As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants ...
Victoria Groom, Leila Takayama, Paloma Ochi, Cliff...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An effective personal mobile robot agent through symbiotic human-robot interaction
Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile ro...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Joydeep Biswas, Manuela M. Ve...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
The summer academy for advancing deaf and hard of hearing in computing
Deaf and hard of hearing students are an underrepresented group in computing and face extra challenges in university-level computing courses. This paper describes a 9-week Summer ...
Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Robert I. Roth