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The Road to Vertigo : The Suppression and Eventual Rise of Mature Comics and Their Readers
(2019-07-01)The legacy of Vertigo recalls the very idea of comics finally being allowed to mature; letting people swear, drink, openly take drugs for recreation, and bringing in some serious ambiguity as to what it means to be a good ... -
Road traffic impact on urban atmospheric aerosol loading at Oporto, Portugal
(2010)At urban areas in south Europe atmospheric aerosol levels are frequently above legislation limits as a result of road traffic and favourable climatic conditions for photochemical formation and dust suspension. Strategies ... -
The road user behaviour of New Zealand adolescents
(2009)The present study aimed to describe the road user behaviour of New Zealand adolescents and to investigate the applicability of the Adolescent Road user Behaviour Questionnaire (ARBQ) to New Zealand adolescents. In total ... -
The Robot Club: Robots as Agents to Improve the Social Skills of Young People on the Autistic Spectrum
(2010-04-12)To better understand the difficulties and strengths associated with both high and low functioning individuals with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), the hyper-systemising theory has been proposed by Baron-Cohen and ... -
Robot companions for children with down syndrome : A case study
(2014-01-01)We describe an exploratory case study about the applicability of different robotic platforms in an educational context with a child with Down syndrome. The robotic platforms tested are the humanoid robot KASPAR and the ... -
Robot house human activity recognition dataset
(EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)Human activity recognition is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. State-of-the art approaches such as deep learning techniques thereby often rely on large labelled datasets of human activities. However, ... -
The Robot in the Swarm : An Investigation into Agent Embodiment within Virtual Robotic Swarms
(2003)This paper explores the notion of degree of embodiment within the context of autonomous agent research, specifically within swarms of virtual robotic agents. Swarms of virtual robots with systematically varied degrees of ... -
A Robot Model of OC-Spectrum Disorders : Design Framework, Implementation and First Experiments
(2019-06-19)Computational psychiatry is increasingly establishing itself as valuable discipline for understanding human mental disorders. However, robot models and their potential for investigating embodied and contextual aspects of ... -
A Robot Model of Stress-Induced Compulsive Behavior
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-09-06)Stress is one of the potential mechanisms underlying compulsive behavior in obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. In this paper, we present a robot model and experiments investigating the interactions between internally- ... -
Robot Models of Mental Disorders
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-02-01)Alongside technological tools to support wellbeing and treatment of mental disorders, models of these disorders can also be invaluable tools to understand, support and improve these conditions. Robots can provide ecologically ... -
Robot self-preservation and adaptation to user preferences in game play : a preliminary study
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)It is expected that in a near future, personal robots will be endowed with enough autonomy to function and live in an individual's home. This is while commercial robots are designed with default configuration and factory ... -
Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy Versus Open Radical Cystectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Perioperative, Oncological, and Quality of Life Outcomes Using Randomized Controlled Trials
(2023-09-15)Context: Differences in recovery, oncological, and quality of life (QoL) outcomes between open radical cystectomy (ORC) and robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) for patients with bladder cancer are unclear. Objective: ... -
Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Orthotopic Neobladder Reconstruction: Techniques and Functional Outcomes in Males
(2023-11-29)Background: Little is known regarding functional outcomes after robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) and intracorporeal neobladder (ICNB) reconstruction. Objective: To report on urinary continence (UC) and erectile ... -
Robot-Mediated Interviews - How Effective Is a Humanoid Robot as a Tool for Interviewing Young Children?
(2013-03-22)Robots have been used in a variety of education, therapy or entertainment contexts. This paper introduces the novel application of using humanoid robots for robot-mediated interviews. An experimental study examines how ... -
Robot-mediated interviews : Does a robotic interviewer impact question difficulty and information recovery?
(IOS Press, 2013)Our previous research has shown that children respond to a robotic interviewer very similar compared to a human interviewer, pointing towards the prospect of using robot-mediated interviews in situations where human ... -
Robot-Mediated Interviews with Children : What do potential users think?
(Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04-04)When police officers are conducting interviews with children, some of the disclosures can be quite shocking. This can make it difficult for an officer to maintain their composure without subtly indicating their shock to ... -
Robot-Mediated Interviews with Children: What do potential users think?
(2017-03-30)To date research investigating the potential of Robot-Mediated Interviews (RMI) has focused on establishing how children respond to robots in an interview scenario. In order to test if an RMI approach would work in a real ...