Exploring the design space of robot appearance and behavior in an attention-seeking 'living room' scenario for a robot companion

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, CI-ALife 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 341-347

  Walters, M L ^a   Dautenhahn, K ^a   Te Boekhorst, R ^a   Koay, K L ^a   Woods, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION SEEKING FEATURES; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; ROBOT COMPANION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34548779614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2007.367815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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