Search Results - "Frontiers in robotics and AI"

A Systematic Review of Social Presence: Definition, Antecedents, and Implications by Oh, Catherine S, Bailenson, Jeremy N, Welch, Gregory F

“…Social presence, or the feeling of being there with a "real" person, is a crucial component of interactions that take place in virtual reality. This paper…”
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Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications by Schranz, Melanie, Umlauft, Martina, Sende, Micha, Elmenreich, Wilfried

“…In swarm robotics multiple robots collectively solve problems by forming advantageous structures and behaviors similar to the ones observed in natural systems,…”
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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality by Slater, Mel, Sanchez-Vives, Maria V.

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Elderly Fall Detection Systems: A Literature Survey by Wang, Xueyi, Ellul, Joshua, Azzopardi, George

“…Falling is among the most damaging event elderly people may experience. With the ever-growing aging population, there is an urgent need for the development of…”
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Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review by Hughes, Josie, Culha, Utku, Giardina, Fabio, Guenther, Fabian, Rosendo, Andre, Iida, Fumiya

“…Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilises the compliance and adaptability of soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft…”
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Quality Diversity: A New Frontier for Evolutionary Computation by Pugh, Justin K., Soros, Lisa B., Stanley, Kenneth O.

“…While evolutionary computation and evolutionary robotics take inspiration from nature, they have long focused mainly on problems of performance optimization…”
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Avatar Embodiment. Towards a Standardized Questionnaire by Gonzalez-Franco, Mar, Peck, Tabitha C

“…Inside virtual reality, users can embody avatars that are collocated from a first-person perspective. When doing so, participants have the feeling that the own…”
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A Systematic Review of 10 Years of Augmented Reality Usability Studies: 2005 to 2014 by Dey, Arindam, Billinghurst, Mark, Lindeman, Robert W, Swan, 2nd, J Edward

“…Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces have been studied extensively over the last few decades, with a growing number of user-based experiments. In this paper, we…”
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Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives by Spezialetti, Matteo, Placidi, Giuseppe, Rossi, Silvia

“…A fascinating challenge in the field of human-robot interaction is the possibility to endow robots with emotional intelligence in order to make the interaction…”
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Meaningful Human Control over Autonomous Systems: A Philosophical Account by Santoni de Sio, Filippo, van den Hoven, Jeroen

“…Debates on lethal autonomous weapon systems have proliferated in the past 5 years. Ethical concerns have been voiced about a possible raise in the number of…”
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A Review of Human Activity Recognition Methods by Vrigkas, Michalis, Nikou, Christophoros, Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.

“…Recognizing human activities from video sequences or still images is a challenging task due to problems such as background clutter, partial occlusion, changes…”
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Variable Impedance Control and Learning-A Review by Abu-Dakka, Fares J, Saveriano, Matteo

“…Robots that physically interact with their surroundings, in order to accomplish some tasks or assist humans in their activities, require to exploit contact…”
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Cooperative Object Transport in Multi-Robot Systems: A Review of the State-of-the-Art by Tuci, Elio, Alkilabi, Muhanad H M, Akanyeti, Otar

“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing multi-robot systems (hereafter MRSs) to provide cost effective, fault-tolerant and reliable…”
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Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review by Schmitt, François, Piccin, Olivier, Barbé, Laurent, Bayle, Bernard

“…The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built…”
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Immersive VR and Education: Embodied Design Principles That Include Gesture and Hand Controls by Johnson-Glenberg, Mina C

“…This article explores relevant applications of educational theory for the design of immersive virtual reality (VR). Two unique attributes associated with VR…”
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Virtual Reality Is Sexist: But It Does Not Have to Be by Stanney, Kay, Fidopiastis, Cali, Foster, Linda

“…The aim of this study was to assess what drives gender-based differences in the experience of cybersickness within virtual environments. In general, those who…”
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How to Model Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots and Benchmark Modelling Performance by Rao, Priyanka, Peyron, Quentin, Lilge, Sven, Burgner-Kahrs, Jessica

“…Tendon actuation is one of the most prominent actuation principles for continuum robots. To date, a wide variety of modelling approaches has been derived to…”
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Reporting Mental Health Symptoms: Breaking Down Barriers to Care with Virtual Human Interviewers by Lucas, Gale M., Rizzo, Albert, Gratch, Jonathan, Scherer, Stefan, Stratou, Giota, Boberg, Jill, Morency, Louis-Philippe

“…A common barrier to healthcare for psychiatric conditions is the stigma associated with these disorders. Perceived stigma prevents many from reporting their…”
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A Review of Magnetic Elastomers and Their Role in Soft Robotics by Bira, Nicholas, Dhagat, Pallavi, Davidson, Joseph R

“…Soft robotics as a field of study incorporates different mechanisms, control schemes, as well as multifunctional materials to realize robots able to perform…”
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Learning Empathy Through Virtual Reality: Multiple Strategies for Training Empathy-Related Abilities Using Body Ownership Illusions in Embodied Virtual Reality by Bertrand, Philippe, Guegan, Jérôme, Robieux, Léonore, McCall, Cade Andrew, Zenasni, Franck

“…Several disciplines have investigated the interconnected empathic abilities behind the proverb "to walk a mile in someone else's shoes" to determine how the…”
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