In this paper, we propose new robotics presentation method called, Self Introducing Poster that uses attachable humanoid parts and explains its contents through a self introduction style. Presentation by a conventional robot sometimes fails because the ...

Computation is increasingly prevalent in the home: it serves as a way to control the home itself, or it is part of the many digital appliances within it. The question is: how can home inhabitants effectively understand and control the digital home? Our ...

Similarly, User models can be useful for improving dialogue management. In this paper we analyze human-robot dialogues that occur during uncontrolled interactions and estimate relations between the initial dialogue turns and patterns of discourse that ...

This poster describes a robot cell-phone named CALLY with which we are exploring the roles of facial and gestural expressions of robotic products in the human computer interaction. We discuss non-verbal anthropomorphic affect features as media for ...

Modern android robots have begun to penetrate the social realm of humans. This study quantitatively probed the impact of anthropomorphic robot appearance on human social interpretation of robot facial expression. The Uncanny Valley"theory describing the ...

The monitoring of human affective state is a key part of developing responsive and naturally behaving human-robot interaction systems. However, evaluation and calibration of physiologically monitored affective state data is typically done using offline ...

In this report we discuss some of the challenges when applying a user-centred design approach in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI). The discussion is based on a one-day workshop at the NordiCHI'08 conference, investigating how methods, ...

This paper presents a novel visualization technique that provides integration, abstraction, and sharing of the information generated by remotely deployed robots or sensors. The General Visualization Abstraction (GVA) algorithm is designed to display the ...

The implications of bandwidth allocation are described for teleoperation in a military task that involved navigation, target detection, and target identification. Color versus grayscale imagery was manipulated. Participants themselves traded off ...

Our project aims at supporting the creation of sustainable and meaningful longer-term human-robot relationships through the creation of embodied robots with face recognition and natural language dialogue capabilities, which exploit and publish social ...

This paper introduces Transactive Memory System (TMS) theory to the study of human-robot interaction in a complex work setting comprised of people with complementary domains of expertise. New insights regarding the development of TMS in human-robot ...

This paper reports on the evaluation of the ICRA 2008 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Challenge. Five research groups demonstrated state-of-the-art work on HRI with a special focus on social and learning abilities. The demonstrations were rated by expert ...

This article reports on a user study conducted to asses the credibility of a humanoid robot. The study set-up was based on the "Monty Hall Problem. Overall 13 people between the ages of 19 and 84 took part in the study (7 male and 6 female). The ...

Effective collaboration between robots and humans is not only a question of interface design and usability, but also of user experience and social acceptance. To investigate these aspects for Human-Robot Collaboration with the HRP-2 robot, two video-...

In previous research, we demonstrated that people distinguish between human and nonhuman intelligence by assuming that humans are more likely to engage in intentional goal-directed behaviors than computers or robots. In the present study, we tested ...

It has been suggested that operators should base decisions to enter apertures on their ability to control the robot, rather than its static dimensions. Doing so, however, assumes that operators know whether they can drive a robot through the aperture. ...

Agentic objects are those entities that are perceived and responded to in-the-moment as if they were agentic despite the likely reflective perception that they are not agentic at all. They include autonomous robots, but also simpler systems like ...

Current forms of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) pursue mostly anthropomorphism and direct interaction. That is, the interaction paradigm is based on imitating how "people" interact with one another (e.g. using spoken language, gestures, facial expression,...

Improvements in hand pose estimation, made possible by refining the model matching step, is necessary in creating a more natural human-robot interface. Individualizing the 3D hand model of the user can result to a better hand pose estimation. This paper ...

Our former study showed that users tended not to react to an on-screen agent's invitation of a Shiritori game (a last and first game), but did to a robotic agent. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the contributing factors that could ...