Robots that learn to communicate: A developmental approach to personally and physically situated human-robot conversations

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-10-05, Issue , 2010, Pages 38-43

  Iwahashi, Naoto ^a   Sugiura, Komei ^a   Taguchi, Ryo ^b   Nagai, Takayuki ^c   Taniguchi, Tadahiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL INTERACTIONS; BELIEF SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; ONLINE MACHINES; PHYSICAL WORLD; SITUATED HUMAN; TACTILE INFORMATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 79960148516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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