Child–robot interaction: designing robot mediation to facilitate friendship behaviors

A Framework for Reusable Robot Behaviors in Human-Robot Interaction

Designing asynchronous parallel process networks for desirable autonomous robot behaviors

The behavior of an autonomous robot is generated by the dynamics of the interaction between the brain and the environment. The designer of the brain must describe and actualize a system that makes a desirable interaction with the contingent physical world in real time. In this paper, we propose a computational model for describing the brains of autonomous robots and an approach to integrating f...

An Approach for a Social Robot to Understand Human Relationships: Friendship Estimation through Interaction with Robots

This paper reports our research efforts on social robots that recognize interpersonal relationships. These investigations are carried out by observing group behaviors while the robot interacts with people. Our humanoid robot interacts with children by speaking and making various gestures. It identifies individual children by using a wireless tag system, which helps to promote interaction such a...

Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction

The ability of social agents, be it virtually-embodied avatars or physically-embodied robots, to display social behavior and interact with their users in a natural way represents an important factor in how effective such agents are during interactions. In particular, endowing the agent with effective communicative abilities, well-suited for the target application or task, can make a significant...

Designing evaluation forms to facilitate student learning.

Most dental school instructors struggle to develop course evaluation criteria that can effectively be applied as valid and reliable learning instruments. Vague and unreliable learning assessments often lead to increased dissatisfaction among both faculty and students. Students complain about the "lack of faculty calibration," and faculty are often unable to adequately evaluate competence due to...