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HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Robots as interfaces to haptic and locomotor spaces
Research on spatial cognition and navigation of the visually impaired suggests that vision may be a primary sensory modality that enables humans to align the egocentric (self to o...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Cassidy ...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Developing performance metrics for the supervisory control of multiple robots
Efforts are underway to make it possible for a single operator to effectively control multiple robots. In these high workload situations, many questions arise including how many r...
Jacob W. Crandall, M. L. Cummings
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium: a field experiment at a train station
This paper reports a method that uses humanoid robots as a communication medium. There are many interactive robots under development, but due to their limited perception, their in...
Kotaro Hayashi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, ...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Robot expressionism through cartooning
We present a new technique for human-robot interaction called robot expressionism through cartooning. We suggest that robots utilise cartoon-art techniques such as simplified and ...
James Everett Young, Min Xin, Ehud Sharlin
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Speed adaptation for a robot walking with a human
Emma Sviestins, Noriaki Mitsunaga, Takayuki Kanda,...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Android as a telecommunication medium with a human-like presence
In this research, we realize human telepresence by developing a
Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, Tetsuo Ono, Hiro...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction
This paper describes a robotic system that uses dance as a form of social interaction to explore the properties and importance of rhythmic movement in general social interaction. ...
Marek P. Michalowski, Selma Sabanovic, Hideki Kozi...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The RUBI project: a progress report
The goal of the RUBI project is to accelerate progress in the development of social robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of new scientifi...
Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel,...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Managing autonomy in robot teams: observations from four experiments
It is often desirable for a human to manage multiple robots. Autonomy is required to keep workload within tolerable ranges, and dynamically adapting the type of autonomy may be us...
Michael A. Goodrich, Timothy W. McLain, Jeffrey D....
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient model learning for dialog management
Intelligent planning algorithms such as the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) have succeeded in dialog management applications [10, 11, 12] because of their rob...
Finale Doshi, Nicholas Roy