Affective computing
The interactive museum tour-guide robot
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Human Tracking using Floor Sensors based on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method
ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 4 - Volume 04
Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Attaining situational awareness for sliding autonomy
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Interactions with a moody robot
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Managing autonomy in robot teams: observations from four experiments
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Enjoyment intention to use and actual use of a conversational robot by elderly people
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
How quickly should communication robots respond?
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
A semi-autonomous communication robot: a field trial at a train station
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Simultaneous teleoperation of multiple social robots
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Who will be the customer?: a social robot that anticipates people's behavior from their trajectories
UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Interactive robots as social partners and peer tutors for children: a field trial
Human-Computer Interaction
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
A Two-Month Field Trial in an Elementary School for Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Human-Oriented Interaction With an Anthropomorphic Robot
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Enabling Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction for the Karlsruhe Humanoid Robot
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Development of the Tactile Sensor System of a Human-Interactive Robot “RI-MAN”
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
A Robust Speech Recognition System for Communication Robots in Noisy Environments
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Enabling effective human-robot interaction using perspective-taking in robots
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
A pilot study to understand requirements of a shopping mall robot
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
Design, integration, and test of a shopping assistance robot system
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Do you remember that shop?: computational model of spatial memory for shopping companion robots
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Approaching a person in a socially acceptable manner using a fast marching planner
ICIRA'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications - Volume Part II
Avoiding moving persons by using simple trajectory prediction and spatio temporal planning
KI'12 Proceedings of the 35th Annual German conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
RoboASR: a dynamic speech recognition system for service robots
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
Cooperative passers-by tracking with a mobile robot and external cameras
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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This paper reports our development of a communication robot for use in a shopping mall to provide shopping information, offer route guidance, and build rapport. In the development, the major difficulties included sensing human behaviors, conversation in a noisy daily environment, and the needs of unexpected miscellaneous knowledge in the conversation. We chose a networkrobot system approach, where a single robot's poor sensing capability and knowledge are supplemented by ubiquitous sensors and a human operator. The developed robot system detects a person with floor sensors to initiate interaction, identifies individuals with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, gives shopping information while chatting, and provides route guidance with deictic gestures. The robotwas partially teleoperated to avoid the difficulty of speech recognition as well as to furnish a new kind of knowledge that only humans can flexibly provide. The information supplied by a human operator was later used to increase the robot's autonomy. For 25 days in a shopping mall, we conducted a field trial and gathered 2642 interactions. A total of 235 participants signed up to use RFID tags and, later, provided questionnaire responses. The questionnaire results are promising in terms of the visitors' perceived acceptability as well as the encouragement of their shopping activities. The results of the teleoperation analysis revealed that the amount of teleoperation gradually decreased, which is also promising.