Affordance Based Housing Preferences

Housing Preferences of Older Consumers

Housing Preferences of Spanish-Speaking Migrants*

In this research I investigate the housing decisions of Spanish-speaking migrants. I use methods developed by Bajari and Kahn (2002) to obtain willingness to pay measurements for the migrant groups in samples drawn from three major California cities. I then apply these results to several hypotheses that attempt to describe current migration patterns of Hispanics into increasingly segregated com...

Affordance-Based Human-Robot Interaction

In our targeted scenario, humans can flexibly establish joint object reference with a robot entirely on the basis of their own intuitions. To reach this aim, the robot needs to be equipped with the kind of knowledge that can be matched in a cognitively adequate way to users’ intuitive conceptual and linguistic preferences. Such an endeavour requires knowledge about human spatial object referenc...

Towards Affordance-based Robot Control

This article summarizes the objectives and the program of the Dagstuhl seminar 06231, “Towards Affordance-based Robot Control”. It was held from June 5 to June 9, 2006, at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science Schloss Dagstuhl near Wadern, Germany.

Towards Affordance Based Scene Understanding

Scene Understanding is among the grand challenges of computer vision. We consider indoor scenes in 3D space and motivate an affordance based approach to autonomously discover common objects. Relationship between visual entities and their supported affordances is modelled as a clustering problem in a feature space reflecting human embodiment. In the current scope of work we only consider geometr...