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A Cross-cultural Investigation on Attitudes Towards Social Robots: Iranian and Chinese University Students

open access: yesJournal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2021
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the study of robotics in academic contexts; however, little attention has been given to the investigation of the effects of social and cultural backgrounds in people’s receptivity of robots, especially ...
Minoo Alemi, Atefeh Abdollahi
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Master assisted cooperative control of human and robot [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
A cooperative control approach between human and robot takes an important role to carry out various tasks in hazardous environments or space. In this case, a robot is operated based on the cooperation between direct human control and autonomous robot ...
Inoue, Hiroyuki   +3 more
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Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces: Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive Voice User Interfaces in a Group Setting

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
As voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as smart speakers like Amazon Alexa or social robots like Jibo, enter multi-user environments like our homes, it is critical to understand how group members perceive and interact with these devices.
Anastasia K. Ostrowski   +4 more
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Social motorics - towards an embodied basis of social human-robot interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Sadeghipour A, Yaghoubzadeh R, Rüter A, Kopp S. Social motorics - towards an embodied basis of social human-robot interaction. In: Dillmann R, Vernon D, Nakamura Y, et al., eds. Human Centered Robot Systems. Cognitive systems monographs. Vol 6.
Nakamura, Yoshihiko   +14 more
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Robot introspection through learned hidden Markov models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this paper we describe a machine learning approach for acquiring a model of a robot behaviour from raw sensor data. We are interested in automating the acquisition of behavioural models to provide a robot with an introspective capability.
Maria Fox   +11 more
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The Estimation of Physical Distances Between Oneself and a Social Robot: Am I as Far From the Robot as It is from Me?

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2023
Research on the perception of interpersonal distance has shown the existence of an asymmetry effect which depends on the reference point of the estimation: the distance from oneself to others can be perceived as longer or shorter than the distance from ...
Jean-Baptiste Lanfranchi   +1 more
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Quasi optimal sagittal gait of a biped robot with a new structure of knee joint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The design of humanoid robots has been a tricky challenge for several years. Due to the kinematic complexity of human joints, their movements are notoriously difficult to be reproduced by a mechanism. The human knees allow movements including rolling and
HOBON, Mathieu   +3 more
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Evaluating social & ubiquitous human-robot interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presented at the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2010), Busan, Korea, 24th-27th November, 2010While many robotic initiatives now share the thesis that robots are a compelling instance of those artefacts ...
Sassu, Antonella   +3 more
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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?

open access: yesFrontiers 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 ...
Serena Marchesi   +7 more
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Using Multiple Robots to Increase Suggestion Persuasiveness in Public Space

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Though existing social robots can already be used in a variety of applications, there are technical limitations to their use, especially outside the laboratory, and humans do not fully trust or recognize them. Considering these problems, a method to make
Marcos Inky Tae   +3 more
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