KASPAR - a minimally expressive humanoid robot for human-robot interaction research

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 369-397

  Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a   Walters, Michael L ^a   Robins, Ben ^a   Kose Bagci, Hatice ^a   Mirza, N Assif ^a   Blow, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Minimally expressive robot; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL ROBOTICS; HUMANOID ROBOT; INTERACTION HISTORY; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; SOCIAL INTERACTION SCENARIOS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77949422401     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320903123567     Document Type: Article

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