Is someone in this office available to help me? : Proactively seeking help from spatially-situated humans

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 205-221

  Rosenthal, Stephanie ^a   Veloso, Manuela ^a   Dey, Anind K ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asking for help; Human robot interaction; Planning; User study

Indexed keywords

ASKING FOR HELP; CLOSE PROXIMITY; EXTENDED MODEL; PLAN PATHS; USER STUDY; WORK SCHEDULES;

PLANNING; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84857792537     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-011-9610-4     Document Type: Article

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