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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...
VR
2010
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
13 years 7 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 3 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...
AAAI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Perspective Taking: An Organizing Principle for Learning in Human-Robot Interaction
The ability to interpret demonstrations from the perspective of the teacher plays a critical role in human learning. Robotic systems that aim to learn effectively from human teach...
Matt Berlin, Jesse Gray, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cy...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 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