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HRI
2010
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Create children, not robots!
Abstract—This essay investigates the situation of young researchers in the HRI community. I argue that we need to have a more child friendly environment to encourage young staff ...
Christoph Bartneck
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Tactile Perception of Rotational Sliding
We present a new tactile display for rendering rotational friction at the fingertips. To inform the design and control of this device, we have conducted an initial set of percept...
William R. Provancher, Brandt D. Erickson, Federic...
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
16 years 25 days ago
Optimized XY-Cut for Determining a Page Reading Order
In this paper, we propose a fast method for determining the human reading order of the layout elements of a document page. The proposal includes a computationally tractable optimi...
Jean-Luc Meunier
ACII
2005
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
Affective Touch for Robotic Companions
Abstract. As robotic platforms are designed for human robot interaction applications, a full body sense of touch, or “sensitive skin,” becomes important. The Huggable is a new ...
Walter Dan Stiehl, Cynthia Breazeal
INTETAIN
2005
Springer
16 years 22 days ago
Balancing Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario
We report on an effort to combine methods from storytelling and multimodal dialogue systems research to achieve flexible and immersive performances involving believable virtual c...
Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Norbert Pfleger