— In our experiment, two autonomously moving costumed robots visit 256 offices during a ‘reverse’ trick-ortreating task close to Halloween. Our behavioral data supports the i...
Heather Knight, Manuela M. Veloso, Reid G. Simmons
— It is generally accepted that a robot should exhibit a contingent behavior, adaptable to the needs of each individual user, to achieve a more natural and pleasant interaction. ...
Oskar Palinko, Alessandra Sciutti, Lars Schillingm...
— In this paper we present a system for all and sundry to create robotic applications which is characterized by adaptivity on different levels. First, users are enabled to create...
Jens Hoefinghoff, Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der P&uu...
— Having a well-developed Graphical User Interface (GUI) is often necessary for a human-robot team, especially when the human and the robot are not in close proximity to each oth...
— Standardized metrics for assessing the success of robots is a necessity for a research field to compare and validate results. The Godspeed Questionnaire Series (GQS) is one of...
Abstract— This paper explores visual pointing gestures for two-way nonverbal communication for interacting with a robot arm. Such non-verbal instruction is common when humans com...
—With the Robonaut-2 humanoid robot now permanently flying on the ISS, the potential role for robots participating in cooperative activity in space is becoming a reality. Recent ...
— 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...