ion and polymorphism are also available to support concurrency. Such languages include Eiffel// [Caramel, 1990], POOL [America, 1987], ACT++ [Kafura, Lee, 1990], Java [Sun, 1995][Sun 1996], and ClassiC[Newman, Payne 1994][Newman 1995]. There are also languages in which the concurrent and object oriented extensions have been made in an orthogonal way, so that the two sets of constructs are separ...

Imbuing robots with personality has been shown to be an effective design approach in HRI, promoting user trust and acceptance. We explore a non-anthropomorphic voice-assisted home robot. Our developed three distinct robot personas: Butler, Buddy, Sidekick, intended differ proactivity emotional impact. Persona differences were signaled users by combination of humanoid (speech, intonation), indir...