Effect of a flexible spine emotional belly dancing robot on human perceptions

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-48

  Or, Jimmy ^a,b   Takanishi, Atsuo ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body language; Body postures; Emotional belly dancing; Flexible spine humanoid robot; Full body; Human robot interaction

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMANOID ROBOT; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34248549403     PISSN: 02198436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219843607000935     Document Type: Article

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