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Autonomous human–robot proxemics: socially aware navigation based on interaction potential by Mead, Ross, Matarić, Maja J

“…To enable situated human–robot interaction (HRI), an autonomous robot must both understand and control proxemics —the social use of space—to employ natural…”
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Automated Proxemic Feature Extraction and Behavior Recognition: Applications in Human-Robot Interaction by Mead, Ross, Atrash, Amin, Matarić, Maja J.

“…In this work, we discuss a set of feature representations for analyzing human spatial behavior (proxemics) motivated by metrics used in the social sciences…”
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Socially assistive robotics for guiding motor task practice by Wade, Eric, Parnandi, Avinash, Mead, Ross, Matarić, Maja

“…Due to their quantitative nature, robotic systems are useful tools for systematically augmenting human behavior and performance in dynamic environments, such…”
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Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot by Specian, Andrew, Mead, Ross, Kim, Simon, Mataric, Maja, Yim, Mark

“…Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. This article presents the overall system-design,…”
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Semio: Developing a cloud-based platform for multimodal conversational AI in social robotics by Mead, Ross

“…Semio is developing a cloud-based platform to allow humans to use robots through natural communication-speech and body language. The platform allows developers…”
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Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research by Marge, Matthew, Espy-Wilson, Carol, Ward, Nigel G., Alwan, Abeer, Artzi, Yoav, Bansal, Mohit, Blankenship, Gil, Chai, Joyce, Daumé, Hal, Dey, Debadeepta, Harper, Mary, Howard, Thomas, Kennington, Casey, Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana, Manocha, Dinesh, Matuszek, Cynthia, Mead, Ross, Mooney, Raymond, Moore, Roger K., Ostendorf, Mari, Pon-Barry, Heather, Rudnicky, Alexander I., Scheutz, Matthias, Amant, Robert St, Sun, Tong, Tellex, Stefanie, Traum, David, Yu, Zhou

“…With robotics rapidly advancing, more effective human–robot interaction is increasingly needed to realize the full potential of robots for society. While…”
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Deployment of a Socially Assistive Robot for Assessment of COVID-19 Symptoms and Exposure at an Elder Care Setting by Mucchiani, Caio, Cacchione, Pamela, Johnson, Michelle, Mead, Ross, Yim, Mark

“…This work investigates the deployment of an affordable socially assistive robot (SAR) at an older adult day care setting for the screening of COVID-19 symptoms…”
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Proxemics and performance: Subjective human evaluations of autonomous sociable robot distance and social signal understanding by Mead, Ross, Mataric, Maja J.

“…An objective of an autonomous sociable robot is to meet the needs and preferences of a human user. However, this can sometimes be at the expense of the robot's…”
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Engaging End Users in Designing Systems and Hardware for a Socially Assistive Robot by Cacchione, Pamela, Mucchiani, Caio, Lima, Kristine, Mead, Ross, Yim, Mark, Johnson, Michelle

“…Abstract Development of low-cost robots to assist older adults requires the input of end users: older adults, paid caregivers and clinicians. This study builds…”
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"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?": Human proxemic preferences for recognizing robot gestures in physical reality and virtual reality by El-Shawa, Sahba, Kraemer, Noah, Sheikholeslami, Sara, Mead, Ross, Croft, Elizabeth A.

“…The use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) for studying Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) offers many benefits, including decreased cost and risk as well as…”
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Situated Proxemics and Multimodal Communication: Space, Speech, and Gesture in Human-Robot Interaction by Mead, Ross Alan

“…To facilitate face-to-face human-robot interaction (HRI), a sociable robot must employ multimodal communication mechanisms similar to those used by humans:…”
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Investigating the effects of visual saliency on deictic gesture production by a humanoid robot by St. Clair, Aaron, Mead, R., Mataric, M. J.

“…In many collocated human-robot interaction scenarios, robots are required to accurately and unambiguously indicate an object or point of interest in the…”
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End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction by Stegner, Laura, Porfirio, David, Hiatt, Laura M, Lemaignan, Séverin, Mead, Ross, Mutlu, Bilge

“…End-user development (EUD) represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for experts and nonexperts alike. Within academia, researchers investigate…”
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An architecture for rehabilitation task practice in socially assistive human-robot interaction by Mead, Ross, Wade, Eric, Johnson, Pierre, St. Clair, Aaron, Shuya Chen, Matarić, Maja J

“…New approaches to rehabilitation and health care have developed due to advances in technology and human robot interaction (HRI). Socially assistive robotics…”
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Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot by Specian, Andrew, Mead, Ross, Kim, Simon, Matarić, Maja, Yim, Mark

“…Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. This paper presents the overall system -- design,…”
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Fault-tolerant formations of mobile robots by Mead, R., Long, R., Weinberg, J.B.

“…The goal of a robot formation control architecture is to get a number of robots into a specified form. To be effective and practical, the control architecture…”
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Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community by Kennington, Casey, Alikhani, Malihe, Pon-Barry, Heather, Atwell, Katherine, Bisk, Yonatan, Fried, Daniel, Gervits, Felix, Han, Zhao, Inan, Mert, Johnston, Michael, Korpan, Raj, Litman, Diane, Marge, Matthew, Matuszek, Cynthia, Mead, Ross, Mohan, Shiwali, Mooney, Raymond, Parde, Natalie, Sinapov, Jivko, Stewart, Angela, Stone, Matthew, Tellex, Stefanie, Williams, Tom

“…The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected. The next step is not just text interfaces,…”
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Assessing the quality and quantity of social interaction in a socially assistive robot-guided therapeutic setting by Wade, E., Dye, J., Mead, R., Mataric, M. J.

“…We present an application of a socially assistive robotics (SAR) system in a therapeutic setting. We examine the amount of interaction elicited by the robot in…”
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4th Annual Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI by Marvel, Jeremy, Bagchi, Shelly, Zimmerman, Megan, Nguyen, Vinh, Aksu, Murat, Antonishek, Brian, Case, Jennifer, Amor, Heni Ben, Fong, Terry, Mead, Ross, Norton, Adam, Wang, Yue

“…The drive for increasing adoption of HRI technolo-gies is evident through research and development of manufac-turing, social, medical, and service robot…”
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HRI-2013 Workshop on Probabilistic Approaches for Robot Control in Human-Robot Interaction (PARC-HRI) by Atrash, Amin, Mead, Ross

“…The HRI-2013 Workshop on Probabilistic Approaches for Robot Control in Human-Robot Interaction (PARC-HRI) brings together researchers to discuss the…”
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