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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The snackbot: documenting the design of a robot for long-term human-robot interaction
We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as ...
Min Kyung Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul E. Rybski, Fred...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
EXPERT
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
In 1993 our group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory began a humanoid robotics project aimed at constructing a robot for use in exploring theories of human intelligence...
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, B...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring emotive actuation and its role in human-robot interaction
— In this paper, we present our research efforts in exploring the role of motion and actuation in human-robot interaction. We define Emotive Actuation, and briefly discuss its fu...
John Harris, Ehud Sharlin
ICRA
2008
IEEE
190views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel, Javier R. Movellan