Quantifying the Human Likeness of a Humanoid Robot

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-276

  von Zitzewitz, Joachim ^a,b   Boesch, Patrick M ^c   Wolf, Peter ^a   Riener, Robert ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human likeness; Human robot interaction; Humanoid; Robot; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

DYNAMIC ASPECTS; HUMAN LIKENESS; HUMANOID; HUMANOID ROBOT; MULTIDIMENSIONALITY; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION; UNCANNY VALLEY;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84876445728     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-012-0177-4     Document Type: Article

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