3 accepted papers
How do people use their faces and bodies to test the interactive abilities of a robot? Making lively, believable agents is often seen as a goal for robots and virtual agents but believability can easily break down. In this Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) study, we observed 1169 nonverbal interactions between 20…
Robots are becoming more ubiquitous in our daily lives including in our offices and homes. As such, it is necessary to understand whether and how robotic presence affects us both emotionally and cognitively. In this letter, we investigate the effects of anthropomorphism and robot state of robotic pr
In a teleoperated system, misalignment between the master and slave manipulators can result from clutching, errors in the kinematic model, and/or sensor errors. This study examines the effects of type and magnitude of misalignment on the performance of the teleoperator. We first characterized the ma…