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- ItemOpen AccessIolaus: A Robotic Partner(2005-04-29) Lau, E.; Sharlin, Ehud; Shamir, A.In a social setting, it is often beneficial to have a partner that is aware of the environment and the circumstances and is able to communicate information that otherwise does not come to our awareness. Typically, these are human companions, however a robotic partner may be an alternate solution. For a robotic partner to be successful, it must naturally interact with its user, and be able to retrieve data and analyze the content. We are designing Iolaus, a robotic partner for social settings. Iolaus can be implemented as a robotic parrot perched on the user s shoulder. When the user enters a new social setting the robot parrot can be asked and attempt to answer questions about the people and surroundings, very similar to how a human partner would behave. In this phase of the project, we will be using the Sony Aibo to simulate Iolaus information retrieval component demonstrating how such a robot can help the user access a vast amount of information in a socially acceptable manner.
- ItemOpen AccessSynthetic Personality in Robots and its Effect on Human-Robot Relationship(2005-04-29) Park, S.; Sharlin, Ehud; Kitamura, Y.; Lau, E.Synthetically generated emotional behaviors in robots can encourage humans to perceive robots with more interest and draw more human attention. Effectively implemented emotional behaviors can help robots to appear more intelligent and can even compensate for limited artificial intelligence by letting humans use their imagination to interpret the robot s behavior. In order to test human reactions, Sony Aibo is used to program two distinctive dog behaviors: playful and fearful. The goal is to study and evaluate the reactions and responses of humans as well as testing the effect different robotic behaviors have on the robot s usability in a specific task.