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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 9 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
130
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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 9 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
15 years 9 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
126
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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 9 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
15 years 9 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...
120
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HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 9 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
126
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IROS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
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
104
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HRI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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