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HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 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
14 years 4 months ago
Interactive robot task training through dialog and demonstration
Effective human/robot interfaces which mimic how humans interact with one another could ultimately lead to robots being accepted in a wider domain of applications. We present a fr...
Paul E. Rybski, Kevin Yoon, Jeremy Stolarz, Manuel...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Comparing a computer agent with a humanoid robot
HRI researchers interested in social robots have made large investments in humanoid robots. There is still sparse evidence that peoples' responses to robots differ from their...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler, Susan R. Fussell, C...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 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
14 years 4 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...
EPIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration
Abstract. In previous work [4] a framework was demonstrated that allows an autonomous robot to automatically synthesize physically-realistic models of its own body. Here it is demo...
Josh C. Bongard
ISER
1993
Springer
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Mobile Robot Miniaturisation: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms
The interaction of an autonomous mobile robot with the real world critically depends on the robots morphology and on its environment. Building a model of these aspects is extremel...
Francesco Mondada, Edoardo Franzi, Paolo Ienne
ICRA
1994
IEEE
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From Spider Robots to Half Disk Robots
We study the problem of computing the set F of accessible and stable placements of a spider robot. The body of this robot is a single point and the legs are line segments attached...
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Olivier Devillers, Sylvain...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
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Exploration Strategies for Mobile Robots
The problem of programming a robot t o carry out a systematic exploration of its environment using realistic sensors is considered in this paper. The robot is modelled as a single...
Camillo J. Taylor, David J. Kriegman