Social Robotics: 6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Development of Brain Training Games for a Healthcare Service Robot for Older People....Pages 1-10
Impact of a Social Humanoid Robot as a Therapy Assistant in Children Cancer Treatment....Pages 11-22
Skeleton Tracking Based Complex Human Activity Recognition Using Kinect Camera....Pages 23-33
Prime: Towards the Design of a Small Interactive Office Robot....Pages 34-43
Group Comfortability When a Robot Approaches....Pages 44-53
Human Robot Interaction and Fiction: A Contradiction....Pages 54-63
Robots in Older People’s Homes to Improve Medication Adherence and Quality of Life: A Randomised Cross-Over Trial....Pages 64-73
Real-Time Gender Based Behavior System for Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 74-83
Activity Recognition for Natural Human Robot Interaction....Pages 84-94
Intuitive Robot Control with a Projected Touch Interface....Pages 95-104
A Novel Collaboratively Designed Robot to Assist Carers....Pages 105-114
Social Robotics through an Anticipatory Governance Lens....Pages 115-124
Using Robots to Modify Demanding or Impolite Behavior of Older People....Pages 125-134
Ethical Dimensions of Human-Robot Interactions in the Care of Older People: Insights from 21 Focus Groups Convened in the UK, France and the Netherlands....Pages 135-145
Artificial Social Reasoning: Computational Mechanisms for Reasoning about Others....Pages 146-155
To Beep or Not to Beep Is Not the Whole Question....Pages 156-165
Perception of an Android Robot in Japan and Australia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison....Pages 166-175
Robots and the Division of Healthcare Responsibilities in the Homes of Older People....Pages 176-185
Investigating the Effect of a Robotic Tutor on Learner Perception of Skill Based Feedback....Pages 186-195
ROBOMO: Towards an Accompanying Mobile Robot....Pages 196-205
Sociable Dining Table: Incremental Meaning Acquisition Based on Mutual Adaptation Process....Pages 206-216
A Sociological Contribution to Understanding the Use of Robots in Schools: The Thymio Robot....Pages 217-228
We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans....Pages 229-238
An Approach to Socially Compliant Leader Following for Mobile Robots....Pages 239-248
Application of Fuzzy Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction - A Review....Pages 249-255
The Uncanny Valley: A Focus on Misaligned Cues....Pages 256-265
Representation and Execution of Social Plans through Human-Robot Collaboration....Pages 266-275
Why Industrial Robots Should Become More Social....Pages 276-278
Classical Conditioning in Social Robots....Pages 279-289
Social Robots in Postural Education: A New Approach to Address Body Consciousness in ASD Children....Pages 290-299
A Multi-modal Utility to Assist Powered Mobility Device Navigation Tasks....Pages 300-309
Motion-Oriented Attention for a Social Gaze Robot Behavior....Pages 310-319
Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Declarative Programming to Learn Causal Laws in Dynamic Domains....Pages 320-329
Robot Pressure: The Impact of Robot Eye Gaze and Lifelike Bodily Movements upon Decision-Making and Trust....Pages 330-339
A Novel Culture-Dependent Gesture Selection System for a Humanoid Robot Performing Greeting Interaction....Pages 340-349
Socially Impaired Robots: Human Social Disorders and Robots’ Socio-Emotional Intelligence....Pages 350-359
Modelling of Pneumatic Air Muscles for Direct Rotary Actuation of Hand Rehabilitation Glove....Pages 360-369
Using a Gaze-Cueing Paradigm to Examine Social Cognitive Mechanisms of Individuals with Autism Observing Robot and Human Faces....Pages 370-379
Adaptive Object Learning for Robot Carinet....Pages 380-389
Adaptive Control of Robotic Arm Carrying Uncertain Time-Varying Payload Based on Function Approximation Technique....Pages 390-399
Towards an Architecture for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics....Pages 400-410
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