The design of a highly reliable robot for unmediated museum interaction

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3225-3231

  Nourbakhsh, Illah ^a   Hamner, Emily ^a   Porter, Eric ^a   Dunlavey, Brian ^a   Ayoob, Ellen ^a   Hsiu, Thomas ^b   Lotter, Mark ^c   Shelly, Skip ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gogoco LLC   (United States)

^c LotterShelly   (United States)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Interaction design; Morphology; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; RELIABILITY THEORY;

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; INTERACTION DESIGN; STAFF INTERVENTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33846177884     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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