Multimodal conversation between a humanoid robot and multiple persons

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-08, Issue , 2005, Pages 40-47

  Bennewitz, Maren ^a   Faber, Felix ^a   Joho, Dominik ^a   Schreiber, Michael ^a   Behnke, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; HUMANOID ROBOTS; MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION; PROBABILISTIC BELIEF;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33646036401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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