We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as ...
Min Kyung Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul E. Rybski, Fred...
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants ...
Victoria Groom, Leila Takayama, Paloma Ochi, Cliff...
This paper investigates the potential usefulness of viewing the system of human, robot, and environment as an “information pipeline” from environment to user and back again. I...
It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated wi...
Ja-Young Sung, Henrik I. Christensen, Rebecca E. G...
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and productio...