Social Robotics
6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings
Editors: Beetz, Michael, Johnston, Benjamin, Williams, Mary-Anne (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Development of Brain Training Games for a Healthcare Service Robot for Older People
Pages 1-10
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Impact of a Social Humanoid Robot as a Therapy Assistant in Children Cancer Treatment
Pages 11-22
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Skeleton Tracking Based Complex Human Activity Recognition Using Kinect Camera
Pages 23-33
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Prime: Towards the Design of a Small Interactive Office Robot
Pages 34-43
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Group Comfortability When a Robot Approaches
Pages 44-53
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Social Robotics
- Book Subtitle
- 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings
- Editors
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- Michael Beetz
- Benjamin Johnston
- Mary-Anne Williams
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
- Series Volume
- 8755
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-11973-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-11972-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 412
- Number of Illustrations
- 150 b/w illustrations
- Topics