What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]
, 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
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Upper limb exercise with physical and virtual robots: Visual sensitivity affects task performance
Paladyn, 2021 We investigated the influence of visual sensitivity on the performance of an imitation task with the robot R1 in its virtual and physical forms. Virtual and physical embodiments offer different sensory experience to the users.
Chevalier Pauline +6 more
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Companion robots: the hallucinatory danger of human-robot interactions [PDF]
, 2018 The advent of the so-called Companion Robots is raising many ethical concerns among scholars and in the public opinion. Focusing mainly on robots caring for the elderly, in this paper we analyze these concerns to distinguish which are directly ascribable
Coeckelbergh M., Dreyfus H., Shibata T.
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 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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Development of an intelligent object for grasp and manipulation research [PDF]
, 2011 Kõiva R, Haschke R, Ritter H. Development of an intelligent object for grasp and manipulation research. Presented at the ICAR 2011, Tallinn, Estonia.In this paper we introduce a novel device, called iObject, which is equipped with tactile and motion ...
Haschke, Robert +2 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 © 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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User-centered design of a dynamic-autonomy remote interaction concept for manipulation-capable robots to assist elderly people in the home [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, we describe the development of a human-robot interaction concept for service robots to assist elderly people in the home with physical tasks.
Arbeiter, Georg +9 more
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Formalizing and guaranteeing human-robot interaction [PDF]
Communications of the ACM, 2021 As robots begin to interact closely with humans, we need to build systems worthy of trust regarding the safety and quality of the interaction.
Kress-Gazit, Hadas +14 more
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Lio-A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 Lio is a mobile robot platform with a multi-functional arm explicitly designed for human-robot interaction and personal care assistant tasks. The robot has already been deployed in several health care facilities, where it is functioning autonomously ...
Justinas Mišeikis +10 more
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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 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 ...
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