FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing and Publishing Online Social Information

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Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 169-178

  Mavridis, Nikolaos ^a   Petychakis, Michael ^a   Tsamakos, Alexandros ^a   Toulis, Panos ^a   Emami, Shervin ^a   Kazmi, Wajahat ^a   Datta, Chandan ^a   Benabdelkader, Chiraz ^a   Tanoto, Andry ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Conversational robots; Face recognition; Human Robot Interaction; Long Term HRI; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TESTING; FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONVERSATIONAL ROBOT; FACEBOOK; HUMAN ROBOTS; HUMANS-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; LANGUAGE CAPABILITY; LONG-TERM HRI; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PUBLISH ON-LINE; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84906322230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20814836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13230-011-0003-y     Document Type: Article

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