Compared to offline shopping, the online shopping experience may be viewed as lacking human warmth and sociability as it is more impersonal, anonymous, automated and generally dev...
Dianne Cyr, Khaled Hassanein, Milena M. Head, Alex...
Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive popu...
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato...
This proposal describes the early phase of our design process developing a robot cell-phone named CALLY, with which we are exploring the roles of facial and gestural expressions o...
— We describe a system in which autonomous robots assemble two-dimensional structures out of square building blocks. A fixed set of local control rules is sufficient for a grou...
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhik...
Pleo is one of the more advanced interactive toys currently available for the home market, taking the form of a robotic dinosaur. We present an exploratory study of how it was int...