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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Effective team-driven multi-model motion tracking
Autonomous robots use sensors to perceive and track objects in the world. Tracking algorithms use object motion models to estimate the position of a moving object. Tracking effic...
Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Acquiring a shared environment representation
Interacting with a domestic service robot implies the existence of a joint environment model for user and robot. To enable robot navigation within such a setting requires further ...
Elin Anna Topp, Henrik I. Christensen, Kerstin Sev...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Interactions with a moody robot
This paper reports on the results of a long-term experiment in which a social robot’s facial expressions were changed to reflect different moods. While the facial changes in e...
Rachel Gockley, Jodi Forlizzi, Reid G. Simmons
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Structural descriptions in human-assisted robot visual learning
The paper presents an approach to using structural descriptions, obtained through a human-robot tutoring dialogue, as labels for the visual object models a robot learns. The paper...
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, John D. Kelleher, Gregor Ber...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Teaching robots by moulding behavior and scaffolding the environment
Programming robots to carry out useful tasks is both a complex and non-trivial exercise. A simple and intuitive method to allow humans to train and shape robot behaviour is clearl...
Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Daut...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Challenges to grounding in human-robot interaction
We report a study of a human-robot system composed of a science team (located in Pittsburgh), an engineering team (located in Chile), and a robot (located in Chile). We performed ...
Kristen Stubbs, Pamela J. Hinds, David Wettergreen
IROS
2006
IEEE
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A Sensitive Skin for Robotic Companions Featuring Temperature, Force, and Electric Field Sensors
- As robots become an everyday part of the complicated environment of the human world it will be important for such systems to feature a full body sense of touch capable of detecti...
Walter Dan Stiehl, Cynthia Breazeal
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Solving ambiguities with perspective taking
—Humans constantly generate and solve ambiguities while interacting with each other in their every day activities. Hence, having a robot that is able to solve ambiguous situation...
Raquel Ros, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami, Jasmi...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Judging a bot by its cover: an experiment on expectation setting for personal robots
—Managing user expectations of personal robots becomes particularly challenging when the end-user just wants to know what the robot can do, and neither understands nor cares abou...
Steffi Paepcke, Leila Takayama