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‘Teach Me - Show Me’- End-user personalisation of a smart home and companion robot
(2016-02-01)
Care issues and costs associated with an increasing elderly population is becoming a major concern for many countries. The use of assistive robots in ‘smart-home’ environments has been suggested as a possible partial ...
Integrating Constrained Experiments in Long-term Human-Robot Interaction using Task– and Scenario–based Prototyping
(2015-05-27)
In order to investigate how the use of robots may impact everyday tasks, 12 participants interacted with a University of Hertfordshire Sunflower robot over a period of 8 weeks in the university’s Robot House.. Participants ...
In good company? : Perception of movement synchrony of a non-anthropomorphic robot
(2015-05-22)
Recent technological developments like cheap sensors and the decreasing costs of computational power have brought the possibility of robotic home companions within reach. In order to be accepted it is vital for these robots ...
Does anyone want to talk to me? : Reflections on the use of assistance and companion robots in care homes
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2015-04)
Differences on social acceptance of humanoid robots between Japan and the UK
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2015-04)
To validate a questionnaire for measuring people's acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultural research (the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire: FSQ), an online survey was conducted in both the UK and Japan including ...
Views from within a narrative : Evaluating long-term human-robot interaction in a naturalistic environment using open-ended scenarios
(2014-12-31)
This article describes the prototyping of human–robot interactions in the University of Hertfordshire (UH) Robot House. Twelve participants took part in a long-term study in which they interacted with robots in the UH Robot ...
Which activities threaten independent living of elderly when becoming problematic : inspiration for meaningful service robot functionality
(2014-11)
Purpose: In light of the increasing elderly population and the growing demand for home care, the potential of robot support is given increasing attention. In this paper, an inventory of activities was made that threaten ...
Social Roles and Baseline Proxemic Preferences for a Domestic Service Robot
(2014-11-01)
The goal of our research is to develop socially acceptable behavior for domestic robots in a setting where a user and the robot are sharing the same physical space and interact with each other in close proximity. Specifically, ...
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 ...
A template based user-teaching system for an Assistive Robot
(Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04)
Demographics issues, characterised by an increasing elderly population, are expected to be a major concern both in Europe and other countries around the world. A proposed cost and care solution to these issues has been ...