Using real-time recognition of human-robot interaction styles for creating adaptive robot behaviour in robot-assisted play

2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, ALIFE 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-52

  François, Dorothée ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Polani, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION BOTTLENECK; INTERACTION STYLES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 67650506965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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