— 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...
— To be effective team members, it is important for robots to understand the high-level behaviors of collocated humans. This is a challenging perceptual task when both the robots...
— Human-robot collaboration in practical domains typically requires considerable domain knowledge and labeled examples of objects and events of interest. Robots frequently face u...
— Instruction of students with intellectual disability (ID) presents both unique challenges and a compelling opportunity for socially embedded robots to empower an important grou...
Christopher M. Reardon, Hao Zhang 0011, Rachel Wri...