Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics
Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium
Adriana Tapus, Marek Michalowski, and Selma Sabanovic, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-07-07. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Preface / 1
Adriana Tapus, Marek Michalowski, and Selma Sabanovic
Organizing Committee / 1
Adriana Tapus, Marek Michalowski, and Selma Sabanovic
Combining Sound Localization and Laser-based Object Recognition / 1
Laurent Calmes, Hermann Wagner, Stefan Schiffer, and Gerhard Lakemeyer
Efficient Model Learning for Dialog Management / 7
Finale Doshi and Nicholas Roy
Developing Spatial Skills for Social Robots / 15
Rachel Gockley
Exploratory Study of a Robot Approaching a Person in the Context of Handing Over an Object / 18
K. L. Koay, E. A. Sisbot, D. S. Syrdal, M. L. Walters, K. Dautenhahn, and R. Alami
Situation-based Robot Design / 25
Seita Koike, Kohei Osawa, Shuntaro Kon, and Miho Takahashi
Longitudinal Child-Robot Interaction at Preschool / 27
Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa
Robotic NLP vs. Human Subset Language Acquisition / 33
Vladimir Kulyukin
Robots as Haptic and Locomotor Interfaces for the Blind / 36
Vladimir Kulyukin
High Performance Differential Elastic Actuator for Robotic Interaction Tasks / 39
Michel Lauria, Marc-Antoine Legault, Marc-André Lavoie, and François Michaud
Countering the Frankenstein Complex / 42
Lee McCauley
Assistive Technologies and Children-Robot Interaction / 45
F. Michaud, T. Salter, A. Duquette, H. Mercier, M. Lauria, H. Larouche, and F. Larose
Telepresence Robot for Home Care Assistance / 50
F. Michaud, P. Boissy, D. Labonté, H. Corriveau, A. Grant, M. Lauria, R. Cloutier, M.-A. Roux, D. Iannuzzi, and M.-P.Royer
Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics / 56
Illah Nourbakhsh, Carl DiSalvo, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Debra Bernstein
SmartWheeler: A Robotic Wheelchair Test-Bed for Investigating New Models of Human-Robot Interaction / 59
Joelle Pineau and Amin Atrash
Next Generation Human-Robot Telematic Teams / 65
Libor Preucil, Jiri Pavlicek, Roman Mazl, Frauke Driewer, and Klaus Schilling
Making Friends: Building Social Robots through Interdisciplinary Collaboration / 71
Selma Sabanovic, Marek P. Michalowski, and Linnda R. Caporael
The Initiation of Engagement by a Humanoid Robot / 78
Candy Sidner and Chris Lee
Bayesian Indoor Navigation Aid for Users with Limited Perceptual Input / 82
Brian J. Stankiewicz
Looking Good? Appearance Preferences and Robot Personality Inferences at Zero Acquaintance / 86
Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah N. Woods, Michael L. Walters, and Kheng Lee Koay
Emulating Empathy in Socially Assistive Robotics / 93
Adriana Tapus and Maja J. Mataric
Simplifying Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm Control with a Visual Interface / 97
Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco
Robot to Human Approaches: Preliminary Results on Comfortable Distances and Preferences / 103
Michael L. Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, Sarah N. Woods, Dag S. Syrdal, and Kerstin Dautenhahn
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