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VR
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Relating conversational expressiveness to social presence and acceptance of an assistive social robot
Exploring the relationship between social presence, conversational expressiveness, and robot acceptance, we set up an experiment with a robot in an eldercare institution, comparing...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Vanessa Ever...
IROS
2009
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Field trial of networked social robots in a shopping mall
—This paper reports the challenges of developing multiple social robots that operate in a shopping mall. We developed a networked robot system that coordinates multiple social ro...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Sa...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Robot motivator: improving user performance on a physical/mental task
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...
Juan Fasola, Maja J. Mataric
ISER
2000
Springer
82views Robotics» more  ISER 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Team of Robots with Repair Capabilities: A Visual Docking System
: In the future, we propose that there will be largely self-sufficient robot colonies operating on distant planets and in harsh environments here on earth. A highly desirable quali...
Curt A. Bererton, Pradeep K. Khosla