Teaching robot companions: The role of scaffolding and event structuring

Connection Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 111-134

  Otero, Nuno ^a   Saunders, Joe ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Robot event structuring; Robot learning; Robot task scaffolding; Robot task segmentation; Robot teaching

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL EFFECTS; EVENT SEGMENTATION; EXPERIMENT STUDY; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INTERACTION PROCESS; ROBOT TASKS; ROBOT TEACHING; TASK SEGMENTATION;

EDUCATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING; SCAFFOLDS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 46249103219     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090802091925     Document Type: Article

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