As the nature of human-robot relationships have become increasingly bound to shift from
supervisor–machine to friend–companion, people have exhibited an increasing interest in …

Following the evolution of technology and its application in various daily contexts, social
robots work as an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system to interact with humans …

Robots are at the position to become our everyday companions in the near future. Still, many
hurdles need to be cleared to achieve this goal. One of them is the fact that robots are still …

Humans show a great natural ability at interacting with each other. Such efficiency in joint
actions depends on a synergy between planned collaboration and emergent coordination, a …

As one of the latest applications in the era of artificial intelligence, a social robot is playing a
more and more important role in our daily life. However, few attempts to date have been …

Human-robot collaboration has gained popularity in various construction applications. The
key to a successful human-robot collaboration at the same construction workplace is the …

Social robots serve as autonomous systems for performing social behaviors and assuming
social roles. However, there is a lack of research focusing on the specific measurement of …

With the advancement of interactive technology, alternative input modalities are often used,
instead of conventional ones, to create intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly avenues of …

This research report introduces a learning system designed to detect the object that humans
are gazing at, using solely visual feedback. By incorporating face detection, human attention …

When humans interact with each other, eye gaze movements have to support motor control
as well as communication. On the one hand, we need to fixate the task goal to retrieve visual …