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 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 ...

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,...

Today, femoral shaft fractures are usually stabilized by means of intramedullary nails. This video presents the development of a telemanipulator system, which, by supporting the fracture reduction process, aims at achieving reliable operation results ...

With this video, we propose a new human-robot interaction that anthropomorphizes a target common object and transform it into a communicative agent using attachable humanoid parts. The user perceives the target to have its own intentions and body image ...

This video abstract discusses the details of the implementation of a Packbot operator control unit (OCU) using Apple's official iPhone SDK.

To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally with customers and to affectively provide shopping information. It was also ...

Simultaneous teleoperation of mobile, social robots presents unique challenges, combining the real-time demands of conversation with the prioritized scheduling of navigational tasks. We have developed a system in which a single operator can effectively ...

In this paper, we present our current research on developing a model of robot behavior that leads to feelings of being together using the robot's body position and orientation. Creating feelings of"being together"will be an essential skill for robots ...

This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in a simplistic approach behavior used in a real shopping mall. Sometimes ...

Psycholinguistic studies of situated language processing have revealed that gaze in the visual environment is tightly coupled with both spoken language comprehension and production. It has also been established that interlocutors monitor the gaze of ...

Providing route directions is a complicated interaction. Utterances are combined with gestures and pronounced with appropriate timing. This study proposes a model for a robot that generates route directions by integrating three important crucial ...

The user interface is the central element of a telepresence robotic system and its visualization modalities greatly affect the operator's situation awareness, and thus its performance. Depending on the task at hand and the operator's preferences, going ...