The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places
Introduction to AI Robotics
Affective effects of agent proximity in conversational systems
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Non-facial/non-verbal methods of affective expression as applied to robot-assisted victim assessment
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Robotic etiquette: results from user studies involving a fetch and carry task
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Influences on proxemic behaviors in human-robot interaction
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
MeBot: a robotic platform for socially embodied presence
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Perception of affect elicited by robot motion
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Exploring emotive actuation and its role in human-robot interaction
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
Adapting Robot Behavior for Human--Robot Interaction
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
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This paper describes a novel, low cost HRI testbed for the evaluation of robot movement, gaze, audio style, and media content as a function of proximity. Numerous human-robot interaction studies have established the importance of proxemics in establishing trust and social consonance, but each has used a robot capable of only some component, for example gaze but not audio style. The Survivor Buddy proxemics testbed is expected to serve as blueprint for duplication or inspire the creation of other robots, enabling researchers to rapidly develop and test new schemes of proxemic based control. It is a small, four-degree of freedom, multi-media "head" costing approximately $2,000 USD to build and can be mounted on other robots or used independently. To enable proxemics support, Survivor Buddy can be coupled with either a dedicated range sensor or distance can be extracted from the embedded camera using computer vision. The paper presents a sample demonstration of proxemic competence for Survivor Buddy mounted on a search and rescue robot following the victim management scenario developed by Bethel and Murphy.