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A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic study
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic (HRP) study was performed using a newly developed Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a robot to measure and control the approach distances to the human participants. The main findings ...
Examining the Frankenstein Syndrome : An open-ended cross-cultural survey
(2011)
This paper reports findings from an open-ended survey on attitudes towards humanoid robots collected from samples in the United Kingdom and Japan. 335 participants were asked how they felt about humanoid robots becoming ...
Evaluating the Robot Personality and Verbal Behavior of Domestic Robots Using Video-Based Studies
(2011)
Robots are increasingly being used in domestic environments and should be able to interact with inexperienced users. Human-human interaction and human-computer interaction research findings are relevant, but often limited ...
Using FSR sensors to provide tactile skin to the humanoid robot KASPAR
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011)
The work presented in this paper was completed during a summer internship at the University of Hertfordshire. The project aimed to explore the possibility of using FSR Sensors with the humanoid robot KASPAR in order to ...
Managing social constraints on recharge behaviour for robot companions using memory
(ACM Press, 2011)
In this paper, we present an approach to monitor human activities such as entry, exit and break times of people in a workplace environment. The companion robot then learns the users' presence patterns over a period of time ...
Histogram based classification of tactile patterns on periodically distributed skin sensors for a humanoid robot
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
The main target of this work is to improve human-robot interaction capabilities, by adding a new modality of sense, touch, to KASPAR, a humanoid robot. Large scale distributed skin-like sensors are designed and integrated ...
Using an embedded reality approach to improve test reliability for NHPT tasks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
Research into the use of haptic and virtual reality technologies has increased greatly over the past decade, in terms of both quality and quantity. Methods to utilise haptic and virtual technologies with currently existing ...
The Theatre methodology for facilitating discussion in human : Robot interaction on information disclosure in a home environment
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)
Our research is concerned with developing scenarios for robot home companions as part of the EU project LIREC. In this work, we employed a particular methodology to gain user feedback in early stages of robot prototyping: ...
'Make it move' : Playing cause and effect games with a robot companion for children with cognitive disabilities
(ACM Press, 2011-01-01)
Play is one of the most important activities in child development. Children with special needs are often excluded from play activities due to the nature of their impairments. This paper describes the use of two types of ...
Investigating tactile event recognition in child-robot interaction for use in autism therapy
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
The work presented in this paper is part of our investigation in the ROBOSKIN project. The project aims to develop and demonstrate a range of new robot capabilities based on robot skin tactile feedback from large areas of ...