— Achieving and maintaining user engagement is a key goal of human-robot interaction. This paper presents a method for determining user engagement state from physiological data (...
Emily Mower, David Feil-Seifer, Maja J. Mataric, S...
We present the situated reference generation module of a hybrid human-robot interaction system that collaborates with a human user in assembling target objects from a wooden toy c...
Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Col...
— The light-weight robots developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are characterized by their low inertial properties, torque sensing in each joint and a load to weight rat...
Human-robot interaction could be improved by designing robots that engage in adaptive dialogue with users. An adaptive robot could estimate the information needs of individuals an...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Matthew Marge, Susan...
— In this paper we present a method for determining body orientation and pose information from laser scanner data using particle filtering with an adaptive modeling algorithm. A...
Dylan F. Glas, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishigur...