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ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Experiences developing socially acceptable interactions for a robotic trash barrel
— Service robots in public places need to both understand environmental cues and move in ways that people can understand and predict. We developed and tested interactions with a ...
Stephen Yang, Brian Ka-Jun Mok, David Sirkin, Hill...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions
— When a mobile robot interacts with a group of people, it has to consider its position and orientation. We introduce a novel study aimed at generating hypotheses on suitable beh...
Jered Vroon, Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Jan Kolk...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Towards morally sensitive action selection for autonomous social robots
— Autonomous social robots embedded in human societies have to be sensitive to human social interactions and thus to moral norms and principles guiding these interactions. Action...
Matthias Scheutz, Bertram F. Malle, Gordon Briggs
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Perceived robot capability
— Robotics research often focuses on increasing robot capability. If end users do not perceive these increases, however, user acceptance may not improve. In this work, we explore...
Elizabeth Cha, Anca D. Dragan, Siddhartha S. Srini...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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A case study of an automatic volume control interface for a telepresence system
—The study of the telepresence robot as a tool for telecommunication from a remote location is attracting a considerable amount of attention. However, the problem arises that a t...
Masaaki Takahashi, Masa Ogata, Michita Imai, Keisu...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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When will people regard robots as morally competent social partners?
— We propose that moral competence consists of five distinct but related elements: (1) having a system of norms; (2) mastering a moral vocabulary; (3) exhibiting moral cognition ...
Bertram F. Malle, Matthias Scheutz
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Real robots that pass human tests of self-consciousness
Selmer Bringsjord, John Licato, Naveen Sundar Govi...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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Shape modeling of a string and recognition using distance sensor
— The demand is growing that a robot manipulates a deformable object. Scenarios for both of a grasping point and transfer of grasped point are required, in order to manipulate a ...
Keisuke Mukai, Takayuki Matsuno, Akira Yanou, Mamo...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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The robot engine - Making the unity 3D game engine work for HRI
— HRI is a multi-disciplinary research field and integrating the range of expertise into a single project can be challenging. Enabling experts on human behavior to design fluen...
Christoph Bartneck, Marius Soucy, Kevin Fleuret, E...
ROMAN
2015
IEEE
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A place for every tool and every tool in its place: Performing collaborative tasks with interactive robotic drawers
— In this study, we examined how participants (N=20) interacted and collaborated with a set of robotic drawers to accomplish an assembly task. The drawers’ behavior varied alon...
Brian Ka-Jun Mok, Stephen Yang, David Sirkin, Wend...