Special issue "Network type robot system". Robot, Human Communication and Cooperation.

Multi-robot Cooperation for Human-Robot Communication

This paper illustrates how robots can effectively cooperate to facilitate communication with people. We expect that communication robots will play an important role in our daily life. Although these robots can communicate with each other by radio, infrared, or other invisible means, our results show that it is important to human understanding that they are able to communicate with each other by...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...

Special Issue on Autonomous Robot Systems

This special issue includes extended versions of selected papers presented in the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica 2013), held in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 24th 2013, an international event co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Society and organized by the Portuguese Society for Robotics together with the Portuguese Robotics Open. The conference had a ...

1 Introduction to the Special Issue on Gaze in Human Robot Communication

Advancements in robot design and supporting technologies such as computer vision and speech recognition increasingly enable robots to interact with humans in a robust and natural manner. These interaction capabilities place new expectations on robots to correctly produce and interpret social behaviors that humans use in face-to-face communication. One of the most salient behaviors that this typ...