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ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demonstration
— Robot Programming by Demonstration (RbD) covers methods by which a robot learns new skills through human guidance. In this work, we take the perspective that the role of the tea...
Sylvain Calinon, Aude Billard
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Methodological Issues in Facilitating Rhythmic Play with Robots
— We are currently investigating the use of rhythm and synchrony in human-robot interaction. Specifically, we are developing techniques for the perception and generation of soci...
Marek P. Michalowski, Hideki Kozima
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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A Bayesian Network Framework for Vision Based Semantic Scene Understanding
— For a robot to understand a scene, we have to infer and extract meaningful information from vision sensor data. Since scene understanding consists in recognizing several visual...
Seung-Bin Im, Keum-Sung Hwang, Sung-Bae Clio
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Proactive Robot Task Selection Given a Human Intention Estimate
— Intuitive human-robot cooperation presents a challenge to robots since it demands of them a high level of understanding of the human user. Our approach is to estimate the human...
Andreas J. Schmid, Oliver Weede, Heinz Wörn
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Human-Robot Interactions as a Cognitive Catalyst for the Learning of Behavioral Attractors
— We address in this paper the problem of the autonomous online learning of a sensory-motor task, demonstrated by an operator guiding the robot. For the last decade, we have deve...
Christophe Giovannangeli, Philippe Gaussier
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Online Affect Detection and Adaptation in Robot Assisted Rehabilitation for Children with Autism
–This paper presents a novel affect-sensitive human-robot interaction framework for rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) where the robot can detect the ...
Changchun Liu, Karla Conn, Nilanjan Sarkar, Wendy ...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Development and User Testing of the Gestural Joystick for Gloves-On Hazardous Environments
— For controlling robots in an urban search and rescue (USAR) application, we present a wearable joystick with improved sensing capability as well as Giant MagnetoResistance(GMR)...
Jaewook Bae, Amy C. Larson, Richard M. Voyles, Roy...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Classes of Applications for Social Robots: A User Study
– The paper introduces an online user study on applications for social robots with 127 participants. The potential users proposed 570 application scenarios based on the appearanc...
Frank Hegel, Monja Lohse, Agnes Swadzba, Sven Wach...
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Artificial Robot Ear Design for Sound Direction Estimation
— We propose a novel design of artificial robot ear for sound direction estimation using measured two outputs only. The spectral features in head-related transfer functions and i...
Youngjin Park, Sungmok Hwang
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Action Recognition and Understanding using Motor Primitives
— We investigate modeling and recognition of arm manipulation actions of different levels of complexity. To model the process, we are using a combination of discriminative suppor...
Ville Kyrki, Isabel Serrano Vicente, Danica Kragic...