{"title":"Involving and training public school teachers in using robotics for education","authors":"Fanny Riedo, Mariza Freire, M. Bonani, F. Mondada","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213392","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of technology in the public school teaching process could help increasing the weak motivation we can observe toward engineering studies. To achieve this goal, one main obstacle is motivating public school teachers to use technological tools in their teaching activity. In this paper we present how to use a large public robotic festival to introduce such educational tools to teachers. A survey made among the teachers helps in understanding their expectations in this particular context and the potential impact of this action, giving hints on how to run this type of activity.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125587644","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}
B. Pierce, T. Kuratate, Akinobu Maejima, S. Morishima, Y. Matsusaka, M. Durkovic, K. Diepold, Gordon Cheng
{"title":"Development of an integrated multi-modal communication robotic face","authors":"B. Pierce, T. Kuratate, Akinobu Maejima, S. Morishima, Y. Matsusaka, M. Durkovic, K. Diepold, Gordon Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213408","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of the new version of our multi-model communication face “Mask-Bot”, a rear-projected animated robotic head, including our display system, face animation, speech communication and sound localization.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114208397","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":"Practical evaluation of service robots for support and routine tasks in an elderly care facility","authors":"T. Jacobs, B. Graf","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213397","url":null,"abstract":"By taking over dull routine tasks, service robots can provide the personnel of residential care facilities with additional time for their actual care tasks. Together with the employees of an elderly care facility, possible areas to support care workers have been identified and support scenarios have been developed as part of the project WiMi-Care. On the autonomous transport vehicle CASERO and the household assistant Care-O-bot® 3, four scenarios were implemented and tested during two practical evaluations.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114230102","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":"Anthropomorphic language in online forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad","authors":"Julia Fink, Omar Mubin, F. Kaplan, P. Dillenbourg","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213399","url":null,"abstract":"What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot's humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of interaction it enables? We aim to investigate robots' characteristics that lead people to anthropomorphize it by comparing different kinds of robotic devices and contrasting it to an interactive technology. We addressed this question by comparing anthropomorphic language in online forums about the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, the AIBO robotic dog, and the iPad tablet computer. A content analysis of 750 postings was carried out. We expected to find the highest amount of anthropomorphism in the AIBO forum but were not sure about how far people referred to Roomba or the iPad as a lifelike artifact. Findings suggest that people anthropomorphize their robotic dog significantly more than their Roomba or iPad, across different topics of forum posts. Further, the topic of the post had a significant impact on anthropomorphic language.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125980430","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}
Christina Lichtenthäler, T. Lorenz, Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch
{"title":"Increasing perceived value between human and robots — Measuring legibility in human aware navigation","authors":"Christina Lichtenthäler, T. Lorenz, Michael Karg, Alexandra Kirsch","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213405","url":null,"abstract":"Robots will more and more enter our daily life. In order to increase their acceptance it is necessary that their movements and behavior are predictable. With our present experiment we assess the acceptance of autonomous robots in human working and living environments. As a specific indicator we define legibility as an important prerequisite for user acceptance. In a simulator study participants rated the navigation behavior of a robot with regard to several aspects of legibility. Results show that Human Aware Navigation is a method to increase the perceived value of robot navigation behavior.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131691673","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}
H. Kamide, Y. Mae, Koji Kawabe, Satoshi Shigemi, T. Arai
{"title":"Effect of human attributes and type of robots on psychological evaluation of humanoids","authors":"H. Kamide, Y. Mae, Koji Kawabe, Satoshi Shigemi, T. Arai","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213396","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigate the effect of the attributes of humans, such as sex and age, on their psychological evaluation of humanoids. We used 11 humanoids in order to investigate the basic tendency of humans to evaluate humanoids. In addition, we included wheeled-walking robots, biped-walking robots, and androids in order to consider the influence of the type of humanoid. We collected data from 2,624 Japanese individuals, ranging from teenagers to people in their 70s, in three major cities in order to obtain maximally representative data. For our psychological scale, we used a humanoid-oriented scale that was developed on the basis of parameters for the evaluation of humanoids according to the perspectives of ordinary people. These parameters are familiarity, utility, and humanness. The results show that middle-aged and older females tend to rate the familiarity and humanness of all humanoids higher, adolescents tend to rate the familiarity and utility of wheeled-walking humanoids higher and the utility of androids lower, and middle-aged people tend to rate the utility of all humanoids higher. We discuss the improved design of humanoids considering both human characteristics and types of humanoids.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121538769","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":"Benchmarking mobile manipulation in everyday environments","authors":"J. Stückler, Sven Behnke","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213389","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss the RoboCup@Home league as a benchmark for service robot systems in everyday environments. The competition requires skills in mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction. Specifically, we detail the contributions of our team NimbRo, which won the RoboCup@Home competition in 2011. We demonstrated novel capabilities in the league such as real-time table-top segmentation, flexible grasp planning, real-time tracking of objects, and human-robot cooperative manipulation. We report on the experiences made with our robots at the competition.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114072956","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}
C. Tercero, Hirokatsu Kodama, K. Ooe, Chaoyang Shi, S. Ikeda, T. Fukuda, F. Arai, M. Negoro, I. Takahashi
{"title":"Cyber-physical system for training and skill transfer in endovascular intervention","authors":"C. Tercero, Hirokatsu Kodama, K. Ooe, Chaoyang Shi, S. Ikeda, T. Fukuda, F. Arai, M. Negoro, I. Takahashi","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213401","url":null,"abstract":"Simulator based training in endovascular intervention is actually done representing human vasculature morphology in software or physically by using silicone blood vessel models. In the first case, as software based system, quantitative evaluation is possible and a wide variety of virtual instruments is available but it presents mismatches between the virtual instrument motions with respect to the virtual blood vessels due that is based on real instruments motion encoding. In the second case, a wide variety of real instruments can be used in vasculature models reproducing accurately human morphology and physical characteristics, but user profiling for quantitative evaluation of technical skills and skill transfer has not been solved yet. Recently photoelastic materials for vasculature modeling and motion capture technologies for catheter motion and operator hands has been investigated to add these properties to in-vitro vasculature models in a cyber-physical system. In this research we present some preliminary user studies results of this cyber-physical system for endovascular surgery evaluation.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133275517","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":"Strategic play for a pool-playing robot","authors":"Thomas Nierhoff, Kerstin Heunisch, S. Hirche","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213402","url":null,"abstract":"Playing pool is not a trivial task for an autonomous robotic system: In order to excel, the tight coupling of accurate perception, planning and highly dynamic while precise manipulation is required. To investigate scientific challenges arising from this tight coupling requirement an anthropomorphic robotic system has been developed, which is capable of playing pool. Focusing in this paper on the planning part, a well-calibrated pool simulator is developed in order to predict the outcome of possible strokes. An optimization based framework applying a discounted return term is presented for suggesting an optimized next stroke by planning several strokes ahead. Different to existing planners so far, our planner considers the player's and opponent's skill. Therefore, strategic considerations (e.g. safety shots) can now be evaluated depending on the outcome of the next strokes for both player and opponent.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115330060","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":"Refined human-robot interaction through retro-projected robotic heads","authors":"F. Delaunay, Tony Belpaeme","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213409","url":null,"abstract":"We present an overview of the LightHead robot and its retro-projected face, followed by opportunities for this technology to push the state-of-the-art in HRI. Through comparison with existing robot head technologies, we show how retro-projected faces can provide a means to display human social-emotional behaviours including subtle social cues not achievable with other robotic heads.","PeriodicalId":279201,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124429085","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}