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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...