In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
By learning a range of possible times over which the effect of an action can take place, a robot can reason more effectively about causal and contingent relationships in the world...
It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated wi...
Ja-Young Sung, Henrik I. Christensen, Rebecca E. G...
In order to deploy mobile robots in social environments like indoor buildings, they need to be provided with perceptual abilities to detect people. In the computer vision literatur...
Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in...