{"title":"Face Identification for Human Robot Interaction: Intelligent Security System for Multi-user Working Environment on PC","authors":"Do-Hyung Kim, H. Yoon, S. Chi, Young-Jo Cho","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314468","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to recognize people is positively necessary for interaction between robots and people. In this paper, we introduce intelligent security system that is able to recognize, track and remember user's face. System uses moving camera that has pan/tilt and zoom function like robot's eyes. In order to construct system, we propose the face identification method based on combining multiple features and applying multiple matching algorithms. Also, we address the benefits of multiple instances and show that identification ability can be improved by using proper combination strategy","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122593129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Jindai, Tomio Watanabe, S. Shibata, Tomonori Yamamoto
{"title":"Development of a Handshake Robot System for Embodied Interaction with Humans","authors":"M. Jindai, Tomio Watanabe, S. Shibata, Tomonori Yamamoto","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314484","url":null,"abstract":"It is expected that robots will play an important role in social welfare and service for the older citizens. These robots should display an emotional aspect to make them more acceptable to humans. Humans shake hands in order to greet each other and display a feeling of closeness. A handshake is the embodied interaction with contact by which humans can directly share embodied rhythms. In this paper, we develop a handshake robot system for embodied interaction. The robot can generate the handshake approaching motion that is acceptable to human emotion by using secondary delay elements from the trajectory of a human hand. The effectiveness of this handshake robot is demonstrated by sensory evaluation","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122833272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Javier F. Gorostiza, R. Barber, A. Khamis, M. Malfaz, Rakel Pacheco, R. Rivas, Ana Corrales Paredes, E. Delgado, M. Salichs
{"title":"Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction Framework for a Personal Robot","authors":"Javier F. Gorostiza, R. Barber, A. Khamis, M. Malfaz, Rakel Pacheco, R. Rivas, Ana Corrales Paredes, E. Delgado, M. Salichs","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314392","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a framework for multimodal human-robot interaction. The proposed framework is being implemented in a personal robot called Maggie, developed at RoboticsLab of the University Carlos III of Madrid for social interaction research. The control architecture of this personal robot is a hybrid control architecture called AD (automatic-deliberative) that incorporates an emotion control system (ECS). Maggie's main goal is to interact establish a peer-to-peer relationship with humans. To achieve this goal, a set of human-robot interaction skills are developed based on the proposed framework. The human-robot interaction skills imply tactile, visual, remote voice and sound modes. The multi-modal fusion and synchronization are also presented in this paper","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127099870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ljungblad, K. Walter, M. Jacobsson, L. Holmquist
{"title":"Designing Personal Embodied Agents with Personas","authors":"S. Ljungblad, K. Walter, M. Jacobsson, L. Holmquist","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314451","url":null,"abstract":"We are exploring strategies for designing novel robots, or more generally, personal embodied agents. The motivation is to open up the design space for robots in everyday environments, while at the same time grounding new designs in existing human interests. We have modified established methods from the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). First, we investigated specific human interests, in this case in exotic pets, to understand and design for possible interests of future robot owners. Based on the data from interviews with pet owners, we developed four active characters, so called personas. Each persona has a specific interest in robots as personal embodied agents, which has a particular form, role and behaviour. From the resulting personas we derived a number of possible designs, where the agents take on different roles in peoples' everyday activities","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126717596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Could next generation androids get emotionally close? `Relational closeness' from human dyadic interactions","authors":"Billy Lee, Gary D. Hope, N. Witts","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314373","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of human-human interactions indicate that the relational dimensions encoded nonverbally between people include intimacy/involvement, status/control, and emotional valence. In assessing nonverbal behavior a key issue concerns the correct level or unit of behavior to code. Low-level codes, such as head nods, eyebrow flashes, and smiles, are concrete enough to be specified objectively. However, a coding scheme based on them may not match the phenomenology of lay people's experiences of natural interactions. A high-level code, such as values intimacy, reliably distinguishes secure and insecure attachment styles but is underspecified at the concrete, bodily level. This paper considers what level of behavior codes may realistically be mapped onto next generation androids. New 'mid-level' behavior codes are offered based on an experimental study of relational closeness in human dyadic interactions. These provide act specifications for a possible benchmark of relational closeness. The appropriateness of certain relational behaviors by androids is considered.","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"378 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126720170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Vanacker, D. Vanhooydonck, E. Demeester, Alexander Hüntemann, A. Degeest, H. Brussel, M. Nuttin
{"title":"Adaptive filtering approach to improve wheelchair driving performance","authors":"G. Vanacker, D. Vanhooydonck, E. Demeester, Alexander Hüntemann, A. Degeest, H. Brussel, M. Nuttin","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314443","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a novel adaptive filter approach to reduce the handicap a patient may experience when navigating an electric wheelchair. The filter automatically adapts to the specific handicap the patient has by training a connectionist structure that converts the joystick signal of the patient to the signal a reference user would give in the same context. Experimental results show that for various handicaps the filter improves the driving performance significantly","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127358759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua Wainer, David Feil-Seifer, Dylan A. Shell, M. Matarić
{"title":"The role of physical embodiment in human-robot interaction","authors":"Joshua Wainer, David Feil-Seifer, Dylan A. Shell, M. Matarić","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314404","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous robots are agents with physical bodies that share our environment. In this work, we test the hypothesis that physical embodiment has a measurable effect on performance and perception of social interactions. Support of this hypothesis would suggest fundamental differences between virtual agents and robots from a social standpoint and have significant implications for human-robot interaction. We measure task performance and perception of a robot's social abilities in a structured but open-ended task based on the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. Our experiment compares aspects of embodiment by evaluating: (1) the difference between a physical robot and a simulated one; (2) the effect of physical presence through a co-located robot versus a remote tele-present robot. We present data from a pilot study with 12 subjects showing interesting differences in perception of remote physical robot's and simulated agent's attention to the task, and task enjoyment","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130454741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinforcement Learning for a Human-Following Robot","authors":"Yang Wang, David Lee","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314435","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the use of a mobile robot following a person. It focuses on the less researched interaction with the human attitude through robot movements. The reward, which indicates the attitude of the human, is used to train the network so that the robot learns an appropriate position relative to the person. The algorithm presented in this study overcomes the difficulty that the feedback reward score given by the human has no gradient throughout large parts of the input space. This network works online and has the ability to adapt to unpredictable changes in the person's preference","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134641037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, D. Bernstein, C. Disalvo
{"title":"A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project","authors":"I. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, D. Bernstein, C. Disalvo","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314465","url":null,"abstract":"Current technology literacy trends in the United States show declining interest and engagement in technological fields of study. We propose a roadmap by which robotics applications can enliven technology education and capture the interest of new students. We also describe our current efforts to design appropriate technologies and apply them at the middle school, high school, and college levels","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131611582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Human Behavior Patterns based on Spiking Neurons for A Partner Robot","authors":"N. Kubota, Kenichiro Nishida","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314481","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses prediction of human behavior patterns for natural communication between a partner robot and a human. The prediction is very important to extract the perceptual information for the natural communication with a human in the future. Therefore we propose a prediction-based perceptual system based on spiking neurons. The proposed method is composed of four layers: the input layer, clustering layer, prediction layer, and perceptual module selection layer. In the clustering layer, an unsupervised learning method is used to perform the clustering of human behavior patterns. We use unsupervised learning because the human behavior patterns to be paid attention change by the other and the situation in communication. Furthermore, we show experimental results of the communication between a partner robot and a human based on our proposed method","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"49 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121190030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}