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What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
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
core   +2 more sources

The Effects of Situational and Individual Factors on Algorithm Acceptance in COVID-19-Related Decision-Making: A Preregistered Online Experiment

open access: yesHuman-Machine Communication Journal, 2021
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, difficult decisions such as the distribution of ventilators must be made. For many of these decisions, humans could team up with algorithms; however, people often prefer human decision-makers.
Sonja Utz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

SEABASS: Symmetric-keychain Encryption and Authentication for Building Automation Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
There is an increasing security risk in Building Automation Systems (BAS) in that its communication is unprotected, resulting in the adversary having the capability to inject spurious commands to the actuators to alter the behaviour of BAS.
Keoh, Sye Loong   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Social Responses to Media Technologies in the 21st Century: The Media are Social Actors Paradigm

open access: yesHuman-Machine Communication Journal, 2021
Clifford Nass and his colleagues proposed the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm in the 1990s and demonstrated that we treat computers in some of the ways we treat humans. To account for technological advances and to refine explanations for CASA
Matthew Lombard, Kun Xu,
doaj   +1 more source

The Messages of Mute Machines: Human-Machine Communication with Industrial Technologies

open access: yescommunication +1, 2016
This essay argues for the designation of industrial and manufacturing machines as technologies of communication. Within communication scholarship, ICTs are synonymous with the word technology.
Andrea Guzman
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-Modal Human-Machine Communication for Instructing Robot Grasping Tasks

open access: yes, 2002
A major challenge for the realization of intelligent robots is to supply them with cognitive abilities in order to allow ordinary users to program them easily and intuitively.
Fink, G. A.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Design of human machine interface of switched reluctance drive system

open access: yesGong-kuang zidonghua, 2013
In view of problem that current switched reluctance drive systems are lack of friendly human machine interface to display running state of the system and set given parameters, the paper proposed a design scheme of human machine interface of switched ...
ZHENG Xin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Communicative Development and Diffusion of Humanoid AI Robots for the Post-Pandemic Health Care System

open access: yesHuman-Machine Communication Journal, 2021
As humanoid robot technology, anthropomorphized by artificial intelligence (AI), has rapidly advanced to introduce more human-resembling automated robots that can communicate, interact, and work like humans, we have begun to expect active interactions ...
Do Kyun David Kim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Involving Interface": An Extended Mind Theoretical Approach to Roboethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In 2008 the authors held Involving Interface, a lively interdisciplinary event focusing on issues of biological, sociocultural, and technological interfacing (see Acknowledgments).
Anderson, Miranda   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Tailored retrieval of health information from the web for facilitating communication and empowerment of elderly people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A patient, nowadays, acquires health information from the Web mainly through a “human-to-machine” communication process with a generic search engine. This, in turn, affects, positively or negatively, his/her empowerment level and the “human-to-human ...
Alfano, Marco   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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