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HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring adaptive dialogue based on a robot's awareness of human gaze and task progress
When a robot provides direction--as a guide, an assistant, or as an instructor--the robot may have to interact with people of different backgrounds and skill sets. Different peopl...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Susan R. Fussell, Sa...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
LASSOing HRI: analyzing situation awareness in map-centric and video-centric interfaces
Good situation awareness (SA) is especially necessary when robots and their operators are not collocated, such as in urban search and rescue (USAR). This paper compares how SA is ...
Jill L. Drury, Brenden Keyes, Holly A. Yanco
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Natural person-following behavior for social robots
We are developing robots with socially appropriate spatial skills not only to travel around or near people, but also to accompany people side-by-side. As a step toward this goal, ...
Rachel Gockley, Jodi Forlizzi, Reid G. Simmons
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Robotic etiquette: results from user studies involving a fetch and carry task
This paper presents results, outcomes and conclusions from a series of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated how a robot should approach a human in a fetch and c...
Michael L. Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah N. W...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Group attention control for communication robots with wizard of OZ approach
This paper describes a group attention control (GAC) system that enables a communication robot to simultaneously interact with many people. GAC is based on controlling social situ...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Satoshi Koizumi, ...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Young researchers' views on the current and future state of HRI
Kevin Gold, Ian Fasel, Nathan G. Freier, Cristen T...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
HRI caught on film
The Human Robot Interaction 2007 conference hosted a video session, in which movies of interesting, important, illustrative, or humorous HRI research moments are shown. This paper...
Christoph Bartneck, Takayuki Kanda
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
To kill a mockingbird robot
Robots are being introduced in our society but their social status is still unclear. A critical issue is if the robot's exhibition of intelligent life-like behavior leads to ...
Christoph Bartneck, Marcel Verbunt, Omar Mubin, Ab...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Experimentally Verified Model of the Perceived 'Coldness' of Objects
In this paper, a numerical model of the thermal process of touching an object is described. The model takes into account the object geometry and temperature, the thermal parameter...
Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest