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Social Robotics

6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings

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  1. Michael Beetz

    1. Technische Universität München, München, Germany

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  2. Benjamin Johnston

    1. Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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  3. Mary-Anne Williams

    1. Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8755)

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

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

Conference proceedings info: ICSR 2014.

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Development of Brain Training Games for a Healthcare Service Robot for Older People

    • Ho Seok Ahn, Mary Pauline Grace Santos, Charu Wadhwa, Bruce MacDonald
    Pages 1-10

  3. Impact of a Social Humanoid Robot as a Therapy Assistant in Children Cancer Treatment

    • Minoo Alemi, Ali Meghdari, Ashkan Ghanbarzadeh, Leila Jafari Moghadam, Anooshe Ghanbarzadeh
    Pages 11-22

  4. Skeleton Tracking Based Complex Human Activity Recognition Using Kinect Camera

    • Muhammad Latif Anjum, Omar Ahmad, Stefano Rosa, Jingchun Yin, Basilio Bona
    Pages 23-33

  5. Prime: Towards the Design of a Small Interactive Office Robot

    • Dante Arroyo, Cesar Lucho, Pedro Cisneros, Francisco Cuellar
    Pages 34-43

  6. Group Comfortability When a Robot Approaches

    • Adrian Ball, David Silvera-Tawil, David Rye, Mari Velonaki
    Pages 44-53

  7. Human Robot Interaction and Fiction: A Contradiction

    • Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Omar Mubin, Mohammad Obaid
    Pages 54-63

  8. Robots in Older People’s Homes to Improve Medication Adherence and Quality of Life: A Randomised Cross-Over Trial

    • Elizabeth Broadbent, Kathy Peri, Ngaire Kerse, Chandimal Jayawardena, IHan Kuo, Chandan Datta et al.
    Pages 64-73

  9. Real-Time Gender Based Behavior System for Human-Robot Interaction

    • Pierluigi Carcagnì, Dario Cazzato, Marco Del Coco, Marco Leo, Giovanni Pioggia, Cosimo Distante
    Pages 74-83

  10. Activity Recognition for Natural Human Robot Interaction

    • Addwiteey Chrungoo, S. S. Manimaran, Balaraman Ravindran
    Pages 84-94

  11. Intuitive Robot Control with a Projected Touch Interface

    • Lennart Claassen, Simon Aden, Johannes Gaa, Jens Kotlarski, Tobias Ortmaier
    Pages 95-104

  12. A Novel Collaboratively Designed Robot to Assist Carers

    • Lakshitha Dantanarayana, Ravindra Ranasinghe, Antony Tran, Dikai Liu, Gamini Dissanayake
    Pages 105-114

  13. Social Robotics through an Anticipatory Governance Lens

    • Lucy Diep, John-John Cabibihan, Gregor Wolbring
    Pages 115-124

  15. Ethical Dimensions of Human-Robot Interactions in the Care of Older People: Insights from 21 Focus Groups Convened in the UK, France and the Netherlands

    • Heather Draper, Tom Sorell, Sandra Bedaf, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Carolina Gutierrez-Ruiz, Alexandre Duclos et al.
    Pages 135-145

  16. Artificial Social Reasoning: Computational Mechanisms for Reasoning about Others

    • Paolo Felli, Tim Miller, Christian Muise, Adrian R. Pearce, Liz Sonenberg
    Pages 146-155

  17. To Beep or Not to Beep Is Not the Whole Question

    • Kerstin Fischer, Lars Christian Jensen, Leon Bodenhagen
    Pages 156-165

  18. Perception of an Android Robot in Japan and Australia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

    • Kerstin Sophie Haring, David Silvera-Tawil, Yoshio Matsumoto, Mari Velonaki, Katsumi Watanabe
    Pages 166-175

  20. Investigating the Effect of a Robotic Tutor on Learner Perception of Skill Based Feedback

    • Aidan Jones, Ginevra Castellano, Susan Bull
    Pages 186-195
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2014, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Amongst others, topics covered are such as interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments; robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities; socially assistive robots to improve quality of life; affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots; personal robots for the home; social acceptance and impact in the society; robot ethics in human society and legal implications; context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding; control architectures for social robotics; socially appealing design methodologies; safety in robots working in human spaces; human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots; robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming; knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence; cognitive architectures that support social intelligence for robots; robots in the workplace; human-robot interaction; creative and entertaining robots.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Michael Beetz

  • Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

    Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams

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