Robots meet humans - Interaction in public spaces

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1530-1546

  Jensen, Björn ^a   Tomatis, Nicola ^a,b   Mayor, Laetitia ^c   Drygajlo, Andrzej ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b BlueBotics SA   (Switzerland)

^c Helbling Beratung+Bauplanung AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Mobile robot; Modalities for interaction; Public space experience

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOBILE ROBOTS; RELIABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; MODALITIES FOR INTERACTION; PUBLIC SPACE EXPERIENCE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 29244485456     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.858730     Document Type: Article

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