Editorial: Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...

Guest editorial: Special issue on robot learning, Part B

In this Part B of the Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Robot Learning, we complement the preceding Part A. Similar to Part A, we intend to highlight recent successes in the application of domain-driven machine learning methods to robotics. However, the papers selected for Part B have a slightly different focus than in Part A as they focus on more specialized approaches for a variety of differ...

Guest editorial: Special issue on robot learning, Part A

Creating autonomous robots that can assist humans in unpredictable situations of daily life has been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and the cognitive sciences. With the current rise of physical humanoid and other highly mechanically capable robots in robotics research labs around the globe, we have come a step closer to this aim. Thus, it has become essential to cr...

Special Issue on Formal Methods for Visual Interaction (Editorial)

INTEREST IN THE DESIGN and development of interactive visual applications has increased considerably over the last few years. The underlying reason for this is the need to allow the maximum number of people to access software applications for the widest number of purposes and in the widest number of contexts. There is also growing interest in the application of formal methods to visual interact...