The design of a semi-autonomous robot avatar for family communication and education

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-173

  Lee, Jun Ki ^a   Toscano, Robert Lopez ^a   Stiehl, Walter Dan ^a   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a,b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b LG   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; COMMUNICATION DEVICES; EMBODIED COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MULTI-MODAL; REMOTE INTERACTION;

COMMUNICATION; GARMENT MANUFACTURE; MACHINE DESIGN; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 52949122535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.4600661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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