Anthropomorphism and the social robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 177-190

  Duffy, Brian R ^a  

^a Media Lab Europe   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Artificial emotion; Artificial intelligence; Humanoid; Social robots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REMOTE CONTROL; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 0037475127     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00374-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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