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2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The power of suggestion: teaching sequences through assistive robot motions
We present a preliminary implementation of a robot within the context of social skills intervention. The robot engages a human user in an interactive and adaptive game-playing ses...
Ross Mead, Maja J. Mataric
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse
User models can be useful for improving dialogue management. In this paper we analyze human-robot dialogues that occur during uncontrolled interactions and estimate relations betw...
Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, Reid G. Simmons
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A preliminary system for recognizing boredom
A 3D optical flow tracking system was used to track participants as they watched a series of boring videos. The video stream of the participants was rated for boredom events. Rati...
Allison M. Jacobs, Benjamin R. Fransen, J. Malcolm...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Human-robot physical interaction with dynamically stable mobile robots
Human-Robot Physical Interaction is an important attribute for robots operating in human environments. The authors illustrate some basic physically interactive behaviors with dyna...
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Holl...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...