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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The boy-robot should bark! : Children's impressions of agent migration into diverse embodiments
(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 ...
Five Weeks in the Robot House : Exploratory Human-Robot Interaction Trials in a Domestic Setting
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
This paper presents five exploratory trials investigating scenarios likely to occur when a personal robot shares a home with a person. The scenarios are: a human and robot working on a collaborative task, a human and robot ...
An experimental investigation of interference effects in human-humanoid interaction games
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)
Investigating how people respond to and relate to robots is a multifaceted scientific challenge. This paper reports on an experimental investigation concerning movement interference effects between a human and a robot. We ...