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What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]
The study presented in this paper explored people's perceptions and attitudes towards the idea of a future robot companion for the home. A human-centred approach was adopted using questionnaires and human-robot interaction trials to derive data from 28 ...
Dautenhahn, K. +5 more
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of sensory sensitivity during robot-assisted training for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
P. Chevalier +5 more
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A flexible sensor technology for the distributed measurement of interaction pressure [PDF]
We present a sensor technology for the measure of the physical human-robot interaction pressure developed in the last years at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Bram Koopman +11 more
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Effects of Impedance Reduction of a Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation on Human Motor Strategies in Healthy Subjects during Pointing Tasks [PDF]
Studies on human motor control demonstrated the existence of simplifying strategies (namely `Donders' law') adopted to deal with kinematically redundant motor tasks.
Campolo, Domenico +4 more
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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?
In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows ...
Serena Marchesi +7 more
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Physical extracurricular activities in educational child-robot interaction [PDF]
In an exploratory study on educational child-robot interaction we investigate the effect of alternating a learning activity with an additional shared activity.
Davison, Daniel +2 more
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Recent Advances in Wearable Tactile Sensors Based on Electrospun Nanofiber Platform
Wearable electronics have triggered the great development of flexible tactile sensors for promising applications such as healthcare monitoring, motion detection, and human‐machine interaction.
Peng Wang +7 more
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For a safe, natural and effective human-robot social interaction, it is essential to develop a system that allows a robot to demonstrate the perceivable responsive behaviors to complex human behaviors. We introduce the Multimodal Deep Attention Recurrent
Ishiguro, Hiroshi +3 more
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Social group cohesion and social support are critical for positive mental health. People may use technology to maintain existing, or even create new, social groups – particularly when in-person contact is limited.
Marlena R. Fraune +5 more
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Getting to know Pepper : Effects of people’s awareness of a robot’s capabilities on their trust in the robot [PDF]
© 2018 Association for Computing MachineryThis work investigates how human awareness about a social robot’s capabilities is related to trusting this robot to handle different tasks.
Cauchard Jessica Rebecca +8 more
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