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EVOW
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Discovering Several Robot Behaviors through Speciation
Abstract. This contribution studies speciation from the standpoint of evolutionary robotics (ER). A common approach to ER is to design a robot’s control system using neuro-evolut...
Leonardo Trujillo, Gustavo Olague, Evelyne Lutton,...
IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
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AIIDE
2009
15 years 3 months ago
Automatically Choosing Appropriate Gestures for Jokes
We examine the problem of automatically selecting gestures that are appropriate to use when telling a joke or a short story. Our current application of this is a joke telling huma...
Dai Hasegawa, Jonas Sjöbergh, Rafal Rzepka, K...
115
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IJRR
2008
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15 years 2 months ago
Cooperative Cleaners: A Study in Ant Robotics
Abstract. In the world of living creatures, "simple minded" animals often cooperate to achieve common goals with amazing performance. One can consider this idea in the co...
Israel A. Wagner, Yaniv Altshuler, Vladimir Yanovs...
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ICHIT
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Creating an autonomous dancing robot
A robot with the ability to dance autonomously has many potential applications, such as serving as a prototype dancer for choreographers or as a participant in stage performances ...
David Grunberg, Robert Ellenberg, Youngmoo Kim, Pa...