Providing route directions: Design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-60

  Okuno, Yusuke ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^a   Imai, Michita ^a   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gesture; Route directions; Timing

Indexed keywords

BASIC STRUCTURE; GESTURE; HUMAN GESTURES; MODELING PROCESS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; TIMING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 67650688965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1514095.1514108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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