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The Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale and reactions to robot behaviour in a live Human-Robot Interaction study
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2009-04-01)
This paper describes the use of the Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (NARS) to explain participants' evaluations of robot behaviour styles in a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) study. Twenty-eight participants interacted ...
Towards Learning ‘Self’ and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions
(2009)
This article presents research towards the development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) inhabited by intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and modeling a scenario of inter-cultural interactions. The ultimate aim of this ...
A long-term study of children with autism playing with a robotic pet : Taking inspirations from non-directive play therapy to encourage children's proactivity and initiative-taking
(2009)
This paper presents a novel methodological approach of how to design, conduct and analyse robot-assisted play. This approach is inspired by non-directive play therapy. The experimenter participates in the experiments, but ...
Towards socially adaptive robots : A novel method for real time recognition of human-robot interaction styles
(2009)
Automatically detecting different styles of play in human-robot interaction is a key challenge towards adaptive robots, i.e. robots that are able to regulate the interactions and adapt to different interaction styles of ...
Supporting narrative understanding of children with autism: A story interface with autonomous autobiographic agents
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
Recent studies in education for children with autism demonstrated that computer assisted learning can increase children's narrative understanding. However, software interfaces which include autonomous intelligent agents ...
From Isolation to Communication : A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project that studies ways in which robotic systems can ...
A Constructivist Approach to Robot Language Learning via Simulated Babbling and Holophrase Extraction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
It is thought that meaning may be grounded in early childhood language learning via the physical and social interaction of the infant with those around him or her, and that the capacity to use words, phrases and their ...
Therapeutic and educational objectives in robot assisted play for children with autism
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
This article is a methodological paper that describes the therapeutic and educational objectives that were identified during the design process of a robot aimed at robot assisted play. The work described in this paper is ...
An Initial Memory Model for Virtual and Robot Companions Supporting Migration and Long-term Interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
This work proposes an initial memory model for a long-term artificial companion, which migrates among virtual and robot platforms based on the context of interactions with the human user. This memory model enables the ...
KASPAR - a minimally expressive humanoid robot for human-robot interaction research
(2009)
This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to the design of the minimally expressive robot KASPAR, which is particularly suitable for human-robot interaction studies. A low-cost design with off-the-shelf components ...