The impact of the contingency of robot feedback on HRI

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 210-217

  Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Lohan, Katrin ^b   Saunders, Joe ^c   Nehaniv, Chrystopher ^c   Wrede, Britta ^d   Rohlfing, Katharina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

contingency; learning by demonstration; robot as social actor; robot feedback; robot response; timing

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENCY; HUMANOID ROBOT; LEARNING BY DEMONSTRATION; NONVERBAL FEEDBACK; SOCIAL ACTORS; TIMING; VERBAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84883267746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2013.6567231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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