The authors have developed a robot called “Robovie” that has unique mechanisms
designed for communication with humans. Robovie can generate human‐like behaviors by …

Robots increasingly have the potential to interact with people in daily life. It is believed that,
based on this ability, they will play an essential role in human society in the not-so-distant …

The use of autonomous, mobile professional service robots in diverse workplaces is
expected to grow substantially over the next decade. These robots often will work side by …

As robots become more and more capable and autonomous, there is an increasing need for
humans to understand what the robots do and think. In this paper, we investigate what such …

In this paper, we report about a new interaction-oriented robot, which communicates with
humans and will participate in human society as our partner. For realizing such a robot, we …

The prospect of machine consciousness cultivates controversy across media, academia,
and industry. Assessing whether non-experts perceive technologies as conscious, and …

The widespread adoption of personal service robots will likely depend on how well they
interact with users. This chapter was motivated by a desire to facilitate the design of usable …

This paper investigates situated utterance generation in human-robot interaction. In addition,
we study the achievement of joint attention because a person must have joint attention with …

In this paper a new framework for entertainment computing is introduced and discussed.
Based on already existing models and concepts the different links and relationships …

Critical to social human-robot interaction is a robot's emotional richness, expressed within
the parameters of its physical display. While emotion arousal is straightforward to convey …