— 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...
— 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...
— 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...
— 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...
—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...
— 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 ...
— 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 ...
— 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...
— 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...