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2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Psychological intimacy with robots?: using interaction patterns to uncover depth of relation
— This conceptual paper broaches possibilities and limits of establishing psychological intimacy in HRI. Keywords- human-robot interaction, interaction patterns, social and moral...
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Jolina H. Ruckert, Takayuki Kan...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Validating interaction patterns in HRI
— In recent work, “interaction patterns” have been proposed as a means to characterize essential features of humanrobot interaction. A problem arises, however, in knowing whe...
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Brian T. Gill, Aimee L. Reicher...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Lead me by the hand: evaluation of a direct physical interface for nursing assistant robots
—When a user is in close proximity to a robot, physical contact becomes a potentially valuable channel for communication. People often use direct physical contact to guide a pers...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A Distributed k-Anonymity Protocol for Location Privacy
To benefit from a location-based service, a person must reveal her location to the service. However, knowing the person’s location might allow the service to re-identify the pe...
Ge Zhong, Urs Hengartner