Robot-directed speech: Using language to assess first-time users' conceptualizations of a robot

5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-274

  Kriz, Sarah ^a   Anderson, Gregory ^b   Trafton, J Gregory ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human robot communication; Natural language; Spatial language

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE CAPABILITY; FIRST-TIME USER; HUMAN-ROBOT COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77951567104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734454.1734554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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