Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots Export

@inproceedings{Dragone-RO-MAN2007, abstract = {Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap and well equipped but suffer from other difficulties, most notably their inability to interact with the physical world. This paper details our wearable solution to combining physical robots and virtual characters into a Mixed Reality Agent (MiRA) through mixed reality visualisation. It describes a pilot study demonstrating our system, and showing how such a technique can offer a viable alternative cost effective approach to enabling a rich social interface for Hu-man-Robot Interaction.}, address = {Jeju Island, Korea}, author = {Dragone, Mauro and Holz, Thomas and O'Hare, Gregory M. P.}, booktitle = {RO-MAN '07: Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication}, citeulike-article-id = {3169877}, keywords = {augmented-reality, human-robot-interaction, mixed-reality-agents, social-responses}, month = {August}, pdf = {http://sosaa.ucd.ie/publications/RO-MAN2007.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-08-28 16:25:07}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, title = {Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - Dragone-RO-MAN2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3169877 N2 - Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap and well equipped but suffer from other difficulties, most notably their inability to interact with the physical world. This paper details our wearable solution to combining physical robots and virtual characters into a Mixed Reality Agent (MiRA) through mixed reality visualisation. It describes a pilot study demonstrating our system, and showing how such a technique can offer a viable alternative cost effective approach to enabling a rich social interface for Hu-man-Robot Interaction. AD - Jeju Island, Korea TI - Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots PB - IEEE Press T2 - RO-MAN '07: Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication KW - augmented-reality KW - human-robot-interaction KW - mixed-reality-agents KW - social-responses AU - Dragone, Mauro AU - Holz, Thomas AU - O'Hare, Gregory PY - 2007/August// ER -