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AAAI
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Task Space Behavior Learning for Humanoid Robots using Gaussian Mixture Models
In this paper a system was developed for robot behavior acquisition using kinesthetic demonstrations. It enables a humanoid robot to imitate constrained reaching gestures directed...
Kaushik Subramanian
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring interruption in HRI using wizard of oz
—We are interested in exploring how robots controlled using Wizard of Oz (WoO) should interrupt humans in various social settings. While there is considerable work on interruptio...
Paul Saulnier, Ehud Sharlin, Saul Greenberg
ACHI
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expres
– The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project t...
Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Automatic Manipulation Action Planning for Service Robots
A service robot should be able to automatically plan manipulation actions to help people in domestic environments. Following the classic senseplan-act cycle, in this paper we prese...
Steffen W. Ruehl, Zhixing Xue, Thilo Kerscher, R&u...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...