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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Primitive Communication based on Motion Recognition and Generation with Hierarchical Mimesis Model
— Communication skill is essential for social robots in various environments such as homes, offices, and hospitals, where the robots are expected to interact with humans. In thi...
Wataru Takano, Katsu Yamane, Tomomichi Sugihara, K...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web
Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Parag Singla, Matthew Richardson
ICRA
2009
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Multi-robot coordination using generalized social potential fields
Abstract— We present a novel approach to compute collisionfree paths for multiple robots subject to local coordination constraints. More specifically, given a set of robots, the...
Russell Gayle, William Moss, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh M...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...