Browsing Research publications by Author "Dautenhahn, K."
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Accompany : Acceptable robotiCs COMPanions for AgeiNG Years - Multidimensional aspects of human-system interactions
Amirabdollahian, F.; Koay, K.L.; Saunders, J.; Dautenhahn, K.; Op Den Akker, R.; Evers, V.; Bedaf, S.; Gelderblom, Gert Jan; Bormann, R.; Reiser, U.; Draper, H.; Iacono, I.; Marti, P.; Hu, N.; Krose, B.; Ruiz, C.G.; Hewson, D.; Michel, H.; Prevot-Huille, H.; Sorell, T. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)With changes in life expectancy across the world, technologies enhancing well-being of individuals, specifically for older people, are subject to a new stream of research and development. In this paper we present the ... -
Achieving Corresponding Effects on Multiple Robotic Platforms: Imitating in Context Using Different Effect Metrics
Alissandrakis, A.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Dautenhahn, K.; Saunders, J. (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2005)One of the fundamental problems in imitation is the correspondence problem, how to map between the actions, states and effects of the model and imitator agents, when the embodiment of the agents is dissimilar. In our ... -
Action, State and Effect Metrics for Robot Imitation
Alissandrakis, A.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Dautenhahn, K. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2006)This paper addresses the problem of body mapping in robotic imitation where the demonstrator and imitator may not share the same embodiment (degrees of freedom (DOFs), body morphology, constraints, affordances and so on). ... -
Adaptive training algorithm for robot-assisted upper-arm rehabilitation, applicable to individualised and therapeutic human-robot interaction
Chemuturi, Radhika; Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Dautenhahn, K. (2013-09)Rehabilitation robotics is progressing towards developing robots that can be used as advanced tools to augment the role of a therapist. Rehabilitation robots are capable of not only offering more frequent and more accessible ... -
The Agent-Based Perspective on Imitation
Dautenhahn, K.; Nehaniv, C.L. (MIT Press, 2002)This chapter presents the agent-based perspective on imitation. In this perspective, imitation is best considered as the behaviour of an autonomous agent in relation to its environment, including other autonomous agents. ... -
AMIA: A knowledge representation model for computational autobiographic agents
Ho, W.C.; Watson, S.; Dautenhahn, K. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007)This paper describes a hierarchical design for knowledge representation in computational autobiographic memory. This model is named AMIA (Autobiographic Memory for Intelligent Agents). Inspired by research in human ... -
Animated characters in bullying intervention
Woods, Sarah; Hall, L.; Sobral, D.; Dautenhahn, K.; Wolke, D. (2003)The VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Empathic Characters) project explores the use of animated characters in virtual environments for educational issues, such as bullying behaviour. 76 participants evaluated a prototype of the ... -
Anticipating future experience using grounded sensorimotor informational relationships
Mirza, N.A.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Dautenhahn, K.; Te Boekhorst, R. (MIT Press, 2008)Operational definitions and applications of the sensorimotor experience of an artificial embodied organism are presented along with a mathematical metric for distance between experiences based on Shannon information. We ... -
Ants don't have friends: thoughts on socially intelligent agents
Dautenhahn, K. (AAAI, 1997)The question what is an agent? has been under dis cussion for many years. However, a consensus exists that the term 'agent' only makes sense in a multi-agent context - namely if there are at least two agents and assuming ... -
Applying Mobile Robot Technology to the Rehabilitation of Autistic Children
Werry, I.; Dautenhahn, K. (1999)The paper discusses the background and major motivations which are driving the AuRoRA--(Autonomous Robotic platform as a Remedial tool for children with Autism) research project. We argue--that mobile robot technology can ... -
An Approach for Programming Robots by Demonstration: Generalization Across Different Initial Configurations of Manipulated Objects
Alissandrakis, A.; Nehaniv, C.L.; Dautenhahn, K.; Saunders, J. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005)Imitation is a powerful learning tool that can be used by a robotic agent to socially learn new skills and tasks. One of the fundamental problems in imitation is the correspondence problem, how to map between the actions, ... -
Artists as HRI pioneers : A creative approach to developing novel interactions for living with robots
Lehmann, H.; Walters, M.L.; Dumitriu, A.; May, A.; Koay, K.L.; Sàez-Pons, J.; Syrdal, D.S.; Wood, L.J.; Saunders, Joe; Burke, N.; Duque-Garcia, I.; Christianson, B.; Dautenhahn, K. (Springer Nature, 2013-12)In this article we present a long-term, continuous human-robot cohabitation experiment, which involved two professional artists, whose artistic work explores the boundary between science and society. The artists lived in ... -
As time goes by: representing and reasoning about timing in human-robot interaction studies
Kose-Bagci, H.; Broz, F.; Shen, Q.; Dautenhahn, K.; Nehaniv, C.L. (AAAI, 2010)We summarise the experimental design issues related to timing in several human-robot interaction scenarios investigating turn-taking or synchronization between child-sized humanoid robots and human participants. Our aim1 ... -
Assistive technology design and development for acceptable robotics companions for ageing years
Amirabdollahian, Farshid; Op Den Akker, R.; Bedaf, S.; Bormann, R.; Draper, H.; Evers, V.; Gallego Perez, J.; Gelderblom, Gert Jan; Ruiz, C.G.; Hewson, D.; Hu, N.; Koay, Kheng; Lehmann, Hagen; Marti, P.; Michel, H.; Prevot-Huille, H.; Reiser, U.; Saunders, Joe; Sorell, T.; Stienstra, Jelle; Syrdal, D.S.; Walters, Michael; Dautenhahn, K. (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 ... -
Autobiographic agents in dynamic virtual environments - performance comparison for different memory control architectures
Ho, W.C.; Dautenhahn, K.; Nehaniv, C.L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005)In this paper, we extend our previous work in investigating the performance of different autobiographic memory control architectures which are developed based on a basic subsumption control architecture for Artificial Life ... -
An Autonomous Proxemic System for a Mobile Companion Robot
Asghari Oskoei, M.; Walters, M.L.; Dautenhahn, K. (AISB, 2010-03)This paper presents an Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a mobile robot. It detects people in the surroundings and manipulates the robot’s motions to approach them keeping an acceptable proxemic distance. The APS sensing ... -
An Autonomous Proxemic System for a Mobile Companion Robot
Asghari Oskoei, Mohammedreza; Walters, Michael; Dautenhahn, K. (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2010)This paper presents an Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a mobile robot. It detects people in the surroundings and manipulates the robot’s motions to approach them keeping an acceptable proxemic distance. The APS sensing ... -
Avoiding the uncanny valley : robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion
Walters, M.L.; Syrdal, D.S.; Dautenhahn, K.; Te Boekhorst, R.; Koay, K.L. (2008)This article presents the results of video-based Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated people’s perceptions of different robot appearances and associated attention-seeking features and behaviors displayed ... -
The boy-robot should bark! : Children's impressions of agent migration into diverse embodiments
Syrdal, D.S.; Koay, K.L.; Walters, M.L.; Dautenhahn, K. (2009)This paper presents results from a series of focused group discussions with a sample consisting of approximately 180 children during which views and opinions regarding agents migrating between different embodiments were ... -
Can models of agents be transferred between different areas
Aylett, R.; Dautenhahn, K.; Doran, J.; Luck, M.; Moss, S.; Tennenholtz, M. (2000)One of the main reasons for the sustained activity and interest in the field of agent-based systems, apart from the obvious recognition of its value as a natural and intuitive way of understanding the world, is its reach ...