Human-robot interaction is a rapidly growing research area which more and more roboticists and computer scientists are moving into. Publications on work resulting from such studies rarely consider in detail the practical and methodological problems encountered. This paper aims to highlight and critically discuss such problems involved in conducting human-robot interaction studies. We provide so...

In this literature review we explain anthropomorphism and its role in the design of socially interactive robots and human-robot interaction. We illustrate the social phenomenon of anthropomorphism which describes people’s tendency to attribute lifelike qualities to objects and other non lifelike artifacts. We present theoretical backgrounds from social sciences, and integrate related work from ...

The success of a social robot relies on its interactions with humans. To enhance human-robot interaction I looked toward useful forms of communication in human-human interaction. Humans communicate through verbal and non-verbal cues, in particular, my study focuses on eye gaze and the effects of its application on human-robot interaction. Specifically, I wanted to know whether having a robot ex...

Human-robot interaction is a recently emerged area of research that is working to understand how to build robots that are better at successfully navigating social interactions with people. Recent work has shown that people respond differently to robots than to animated characters, that the physical embodiment of a robot is important in an interaction, and that social behavior on the part of a r...

There is a growing need for robots that can not only function in close proximity to human beings but also physically interact with them safely. We believe inherent safety is extremely important for robots in human environments. In this paper, we identify key design paradigms for robots that can safely perform physical human robot interaction (pHRI). We believe soft robots can incorporate these ...

A new RoboCup soccer league is being developed, focussing on human-robot interaction. In this league each team consists of both human players, mounted on Segway HT scooters, and a robotic version of the Segway; both human and robot players must cooperate to score goals. This paper presents details of the physical design of our autonomous Segway Soccer robot and the modified Segway scooter that ...

mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. in this paper, a new approachis proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. the proposedapproach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the trackusing a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. for training, a human operator navigates themobile robot in some...

We report work on a LEGO robot that displays different emotional expressions in response to physical stimulation, for the purpose of social interaction with humans. This is a first step toward our longer-term goal of exploring believable emotional exchanges to achieve plausible interaction with a simple robot. Drawing inspiration from theories of human basic emotions, we have implemented severa...

accommodation of mechanism with human being’s physical characteristics creates the possibility of safe and efficient interaction between human being and robot. regarding the fact that amputation of a limb in human beings causes several mental, economical and social difficulties and problems, need to a substitute limb which has the most efficiency for the person after amputation is a vital need....