Evaluating and benchmarking the interactions between a humanoid robot and a virtual human for a real-world social task

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 409, Issue , 2013, Pages 184-197

  Mizanoor Rahman, S M ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Human robot interaction; Humancomputer interaction; Humanoid robot; Social Robot; Social task; System integration; Virtual human

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BENCHMARKING; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

HUMANOID ROBOT; SOCIAL ROBOTS; SOCIAL TASK; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84897757386     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03783-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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