{"title":"A Framework for Situation-based Social Interaction","authors":"Alan R. Wagner, R. Arkin","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314432","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a theoretical framework for computationally representing social situations in a robot. This work is based on interdependence theory, a social psychological theory of interaction and social situation analysis. We use interdependence theory to garner information about the social situations involving a human and a robot. We also quantify the gain in outcome resulting from situation analysis. Experiments demonstrate the utility of social situation information and of our situation-based framework as a method for guiding robot interaction. We conclude that this framework offers a principled, general approach for studying interactive robotics problems","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"82 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":"114626784","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":"User Expectations on Human-Robot Co-operation","authors":"Lars Oestreicher, K. S. Eklundh","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314400","url":null,"abstract":"Robots are sometimes considered as candidates for being ideal helpers in various situations. As robot technology advances quickly it might be tempting to assume that robots will soon widely used in homes dealing with all sorts of tasks, from small assignments to more complex tasks. However, it is still not clear what people expect a robot to do in their homes. This paper describes the results from two studies that investigate the public opinion towards service robots, both as a general domestic worker, and as a support for people with special needs","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"67 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":"115037724","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":"Direct-Manipulation Interface for Collaborative 3D Drawing in the Real World","authors":"A. Osaki, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Y. Miwa","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314359","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the collaborative augmented reality (AR) system with which multiple users can handwrite 3D lines in the air simultaneously and manipulate the lines directly in the real world. In addition, we propose a new technique for embodied communication utilizing the 3D drawing exercise. Up to now, the various 3D user interfaces have been proposed. Although most of them aim to solve the specific problems in the virtual environments, the possibility of the 3D drawing expression has not been explored yet. Accordingly, we paid special attention to the interaction with the real objects in daily life, and considered to manipulate real objects and 3D lines without any distinctions by the same action. The developed AR system consists of a head-mounted display, a drawing tool, 6DOF sensors, and the 3D user interface, which enables to push, grasp and pitch a 3D lines directly by use of the drawing tool. Additionally users can pick up desired color from either a landscape or a virtual line through the direct interaction with this tool. For sharing 3D lines among multiple users at the same place, the distributed-type AR system has been developed that mutually sends and receives drawn data between systems. With the developed system, users can proceed to design jointly in the real space through arranging each 3D drawing by direct manipulation. Moreover, a new application to the entertainment has become possible to play sports like catch, fencing match, or the like","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"159 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":"132056243","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":"Interface Devices and Software Tools for Expressive Music Creation","authors":"S. Hashimoto","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314483","url":null,"abstract":"In the past some decades, the advanced information technology has proposed a variety of new ways of music creation and performance to make people free from the physical limitations of instruments by providing different abilities on music creation. This paper describes some interface devices and software tools that have been developed in our group","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"20 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":"128408127","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}
N. Hanajima, Youhei Ohta, Yuki Sakurai, H. Hikita, M. Yamashita
{"title":"Further Experiments to Investigate the Influence of Robot Motions on Human Impressions","authors":"N. Hanajima, Youhei Ohta, Yuki Sakurai, H. Hikita, M. Yamashita","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314488","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates human impressions of the robot's reaching motion based on psychophysiological experiments. There has been an increasing development of robots that move in the immediate vicinity of humans. It is important to ensure the security and relief of humans in the presence of robots. In our previous works, we employed heart rate variabilities, skin potential responses, and skin conductance responses (SCR) to investigate the influence of robot motion on human impressions. The results of several experiments showed that there was a modality effect, that is, the blocking out of the actuation noise and sight coming from robots tended to decrease the sympathetic nerve system (SNS) response. In this paper, we performed further experiments to investigate the modality effect and the long-term effect on human impressions based on SCR analysis and subjective ratings. The long-term effect implied a variation of response to robot motion over a long period. When the same stimuli are presented to humans, their responses to the stimuli tend to attenuate gradually. This phenomenon is known as habituation. In our experimentation (Hanajima et al., 2005), the subjects were asked to engage in two successive sets of the experiment for two months. We found two kinds of habituation in the data, the variation in a day and the variation between days. We defined the short-term variation as the former and the long-term variation as the latter. By comparing them, the long-term effect was investigated. As a result, we confirmed the same modality effect as illustrated in previous works. We also observed significant differences in the short-term and long-term variation from the SCR analysis. In the analysis of subjective ratings, the significant difference in the long-term variation was observed in more subjects than in the short-term variation. This suggested that the negative mental impression of the subjects to robot motion decreased as time passed","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"32 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":"134029869","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":"Robust Speech Understanding for Multi-Modal Human-Robot Communication","authors":"S. Hüwel, B. Wrede, G. Sagerer","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314393","url":null,"abstract":"In order to model complex human robot interaction researchers not only have to consider different tasks but also to handle the complex interplay of different modules of one single robot system. In our context we constructed a robot assistant integrated in a home or office environment. We allow for a fairly natural communication style, which means that the users communicate using speech but are also allowed to use gestures and moreover to use contextual scene knowledge. Against this background, this paper presents a robust speech understanding component for situated human-robot communication. It serves as interface between speech recognition and dialog management. To increase robustness of speech processing it rates the speech recognition output by means of semantic coherence. Even if the recognized word-stream is not grammatically correct the speech understanding component provides semantic interpretations in context of multi-modal input for dialog management. For the understanding process, we designed special semantic concepts grounded to the domain of situated communication. They also provide additional information about the dialog act. A processing mechanism uses these concept units to generate the most likely semantic interpretation of the utterances","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"27 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":"134322851","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 Target Object Based on Human Hand Movement for Handing-Over between Human and Self-Moving Trays","authors":"Y. Tamura, M. Sugi, J. Ota, T. Arai","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314416","url":null,"abstract":"We aim to realize a robotic system that hands over a necessary object to a user as soon as he/she attempts to reach out for it. In order to realize such system, the following is required: 1) detection of the reaching movement, 2) prediction of the target object among multiple objects, and 3) handing over the object to a user. In this paper, the first two of them are described and discussed. We apply the smoothness and the speed of the hand movement to distinguish whether the movement is for reaching or not. And in order to predict the target object, we define the certainty according to the relative movement of the hand to each object. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we compare the method with the minimum jerk model based approach. A description of the experimental results demonstrates the usefulness of the method proposed here","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"309 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":"116108026","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":"Evaluation of Passing Distance for Social Robots","authors":"Elena Pacchierotti, H. Christensen, P. Jensfelt","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314436","url":null,"abstract":"Casual encounters with mobile robots for nonexperts can be a challenge due to lack of an interaction model. The present work is based on the rules from proxemics which are used to design a passing strategy. In narrow corridors the lateral distance of passage is a key parameter to consider. An implemented system has been used in a small study to verify the basic parametric design for such a system. In total 10 subjects evaluated variations in proxemics for encounters with a robot in a corridor setting. The user feedback indicates that entering the intimate sphere of people is less comfortable, however a too significant avoidance is also considered unnecessary. Adequate signaling of avoidance is a behaviour that must be carefully tuned","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"3 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":"126092879","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}
Shogo Nabe, S. Cowley, T. Kanda, K. Hiraki, H. Ishiguro, N. Hagita
{"title":"Robots as social mediators: coding for engineers","authors":"Shogo Nabe, S. Cowley, T. Kanda, K. Hiraki, H. Ishiguro, N. Hagita","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314464","url":null,"abstract":"Coding can contribute to robot design by suggesting behavioral benchmarks. These, however, depend on the level of analysis. In illustration, semi-formalized rules are used to investigate child-robot encounters. By using behavior-level codes, we extract information about how children use the robot. This leads to findings about longitudinal changes in how children evaluate its behaviors. Children, we find, use the robot as a social mediator - to prompt synchronized social events. By focusing on a behavioral level, coding can benefit designers of robots, software and sensors","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"44 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":"127656518","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}
Youngmin Kim, Hyong-Euk Lee, Kwang-Hyun Park, Z. Bien
{"title":"Steward Robot: Emotional Agent for Subtle Human-Robot Interaction","authors":"Youngmin Kim, Hyong-Euk Lee, Kwang-Hyun Park, Z. Bien","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314428","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new service agent, called a steward robot, which provides inhabitants with accessible, convenient, and cost effective interfaces as an intermediate agent between the user and a smart home environment. To implement more subtle emotional reaction of the agent, we adopt a novel emotional cue, sentiment relation, and address a problem of modeling the intensity and transition of emotion words, while previous researches have mainly focused on the selection of discrete emotion words from psychological point of view. We also discuss some issues of the proposed emotional model applying a virtual scenario to our Intelligent Sweet Home","PeriodicalId":254129,"journal":{"name":"ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication","volume":"3 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":"115464110","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}