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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"social robot"”.
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Learning and Planning for Social Robot Navigation
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Creation and Testing of a Social Robot Guideline
<p>For this thesis, I created a guideline for socially assistive robots (SARs), and used it to evaluate a reading comprehension based social robot.</p> <p>To create the guideline I extracted relevant details from published standards about toy safety, radio equipment, electromagnetic compatibility, …
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Toward Building A Social Robot With An Emotion-based Internal Control
… embodied agent. We begin by describing our robotic prototype, Cherry--a robot with the task of being a tour guide and an office assistant for the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida. Cherry did not have a formal emotion representation of internal states, but did …
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Tell Me Why (and What)! Self-Explanations for Autonomous Social Robot Behavior
Social robots’ capabilities are advancing and so is their deployment in numerous domains - as language tutors, workout partners or social companions. An increase in social robots’ abilities to autonomously choose behaviors inevitably augments the likelihood that these behaviors deviate from what a …
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Studying Eye Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Interaction with a Social Robot
… the feasibility and effectiveness of using a social robot, called NAO, at modeling and improving the social responses and behaviors of children with autism. In our investigation, we designed and developed two protocols to fulfill this mission. Since eye contact and gaze responses are important …
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Lifelong Personalization for Social Robot Learning Companions: Interactive Student Modeling Across Tasks and Over Time
… engaging students cognitively, affectively, and socially, this thesis advances work to develop “social robot learning companions" that engage with and adapt to students across different language/literacy tasks to provide long- term, scalable, and personalized learning assistance. Personalized …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… at play in the morphological design of social robots. The thesis argues for a knowing and consciously engaged approach to the matter and materialisation of non-human bodies in a technologically-driven discipline that is rapidly shaping, and being shaped, by society. Through a survey of …
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Studying Facial Expression Recognition and Imitation Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Interaction with a Social Robot
… abilities in recognizing non-verbal elements of social interactions such as facial expressions [1]. They also show deficiencies in imitating facial expressions in social situations. In this Master thesis, we focus on studying the ability of children with ASD in recognizing facial expressions and …
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"This is the fluffy robot that only speaks French" : language use between preschoolers, their families, and a social robot while sharing virtual toys
… learning for preschool aged children using social robots as conversation partners within a shared play context for children and their families. It addresses an underserved age for language learning, where early learning can greatly impact later educational success, but that cannot benefit …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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The impact of social robots on young patients' socio-emotional wellbeing in a pediatric inpatient care context
… project aims to close this gap by creating a social robot able to mitigate stress and anxiety and to promote positive affect and physical activity in pediatric patients by engaging them in playful interactive activities. We ran a randomized controlled trial study at a local pediatric hospital …
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IDK : an Interaction Development Kit to design interactions for lightweight autonomous vehicles
… to cars; they may instead be a new class of social robot that could blend into the city more seamlessly. Moreover, when there is no longer a driver within each vehicle, designing human-machine interface (HMI) that is simple for users to process will be more important than ever.
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
… on ethical, moral, and agenthood debates around social and humanoid robots in two ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from moral concerns in Robot Ethics to data-related ethical concerns in Media and Surveillance Studies. I …
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Developing a social robotic companion for stress and anxiety mitigation in pediatric hospitals
The potential value of using social robot has started to be explored in the fields of education, eldercare and health management for the past decade. However, there has not been much research in how robots can socially engage in order to reduce negative affects of patients in pediatric context. …
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Towards Building a Pedagogical Agent that Supports Children’s Exploration and Home Literacy Education
… to learn by themselves. I then describe the robot’s behavior design for the exploration demonstration with a social robot platform. Later, I discuss two different robot interaction paradigms for the delivery of the demonstration behavior. I evaluate the system with 35 children and a …
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Artificial Intelligence Tools, Curricula, and Agents for Creative Learning
… students to engage with AI concepts. Utilizing social interaction from AI agents as a mode of fostering creative expression in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, I designed and applied inclusive child-robot interactions for collaborative creativity, where 32 elementary school children …
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Developing affect-aware robot tutors
… such as educational software or interactive robots, could help bridge this gap. One problem faced by all tutors, human or computer, is assessing a student's knowledge: how do you determine what another person knows or doesn't know? Previous algorithmic solutions to this problem include the …
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Towards Improving Human-Robot Interaction For Social Robots
Autonomous robots interacting with humans in a social setting must consider the social-cultural environment when pursuing their objectives. Thus the social robot must perceive and understand the social cultural environment in order to be able to explain and predict the actions of its human …
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Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing
… and intervention tasks. This thesis presents social robots that deliver interactive positive psychology interventions and build rapport with people over time as helpful companions to improve psychological wellbeing. Two long-term deployment studies explored and evaluated how these robotic …
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PopBots : leveraging social robots to aid preschool children's artificial intelligence education
… devices such as voice personal assistants, home robots, and internet connected "smart" toys. In previous research, we have seen that children lack understanding of how modern Al devices work, making it difficult for them to engage in reflective and constructive interactions with the Al-enabled …
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