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ICRA
2009
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
EPIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Controlling interruptions: awareness displays and social motivation for coordination
Spontaneous communication is common in the workplace but can be disruptive. Such communication usually benefits the initiator more than the target of an interruption. Previous res...
Laura A. Dabbish, Robert E. Kraut
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Traffic in Social Media II: Modeling Bursty Popularity
Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present t...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone