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Social Robotics

4th International Conference, ICSR 2012, Chengdu, China, October 29-31, 2012, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7621)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ICSR: International Conference on Social Robotics

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Table of contents (66 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Affective and Cognitive Sciences for Socially Interactive Robots

    1. Manipulating Mental States through Physical Action

      • Jesse Gray, Cynthia Breazeal
      Pages 1-14
    2. The Automaticity of Social Behavior towards Robots: The Influence of Cognitive Load on Interpersonal Distance to Approachable versus Less Approachable Robots

      • Jaap Ham, Mirjam van Esch, Yvonne Limpens, Jente de Pee, John-John Cabibihan, Shuzhi Sam Ge
      Pages 15-25
    3. How to Make a Robot Smile? Perception of Emotional Expressions from Digitally-Extracted Facial Landmark Configurations

      • Caixia Liu, Jaap Ham, Eric Postma, Cees Midden, Bart Joosten, Martijn Goudbeek
      Pages 26-34
    4. A Cross-Cultural Study on Generation of Culture Dependent Facial Expressions of Humanoid Social Robot

      • Gabriele Trovato, Tatsuhiro Kishi, Nobutsuna Endo, Kenji Hashimoto, Atsuo Takanishi
      Pages 35-44
    5. Robot Social Intelligence

      • Mary-Anne Williams
      Pages 45-55
    6. Android Emotions Revealed

      • Evgenios Vlachos, Henrik Schärfe
      Pages 56-65
  3. Situated Interaction and Embodiment

    1. A User Trial Study to Understand Play Behaviors of Autistic Children Using a Social Robot

      • Alvin Wong, Yeow Kee Tan, Adrian Tay, Anthony Wong, Dilip Kumar Limbu, Tran Anh Dung et al.
      Pages 76-85
    2. Collecting Heart Rate Using a High Precision, Non-contact, Single-Point Infrared Temperature Sensor

      • Laura Boccanfuso, Eva Juarez Perez, Myra Robinson, Jason M. O’Kane
      Pages 86-97
    3. How Can a Social Robot Facilitate Children’s Collaboration?

      • Michihiro Shimada, Takayuki Kanda, Satoshi Koizumi
      Pages 98-107
    4. Dorothy Robotubby: A Robotic Nanny

      • Haibin Yan, Marcelo H. Ang Jr., Aun Neow Poo
      Pages 118-127
  4. Robots to Assist the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

    1. Would Granny Let an Assistive Robot into Her Home?

      • Susanne Frennert, Britt Östlund, HÃ¥kan Eftring
      Pages 128-137
    2. How Social Robots Make Older Users Really Feel Well – A Method to Assess Users’ Concepts of a Social Robotic Assistant

      • Tobias Körtner, Alexandra Schmid, Daliah Batko-Klein, Christoph Gisinger, Andreas Huber, Lara Lammer et al.
      Pages 138-147
    3. Identifying Specific Reasons Behind Unmet Needs May Inform More Specific Eldercare Robot Design

      • Rebecca Q. Stafford, Bruce A. MacDonald, Elizabeth Broadbent
      Pages 148-157
    4. Imagery of Disabled People within Social Robotics Research

      • Sophya Yumakulov, Dean Yergens, Gregor Wolbring
      Pages 168-177
    5. HRI Evaluation of a Healthcare Service Robot

      • I-Han Kuo, Chandimal Jayawardena, Elizabeth Broadbent, Rebecca Q. Stafford, Bruce A. MacDonald
      Pages 178-187
    6. Automated Behavioral Mapping for Monitoring Social Interactions among Older Adults

      • Claudia B. Rebola, Gbolabo Ogunmakin, Patricio A. Vela
      Pages 188-198

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012.
The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots I and II.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Interactive Digial Media Institute, Social Robotics Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge, John-John Cabibihan

  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  • Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Reid Simmons

  • Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Mary-Anne Williams

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