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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 ...
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, ...
Assistive technology design and development for acceptable robotics companions for ageing years
(2013-12)
A new stream of research and development responds to changes in life expectancy across the world. It includes technologies which enhance well-being of individuals, specifically for older people. The ACCOMPANY project focuses ...
Sharing spaces with robots in a home scenario - anthropomorphic attributions and their effect on proxemic expectations and evaluations in a live HRI trial
(AAAI, 2008)
This paper presents results from an HRI study that involved participants interacting with robots of different appearances. The particular focus of this paper is how anthropomorphic attributions impacted the proxemic ...