Antropomorfizm (insanbiçimcilik); tarih öncesi çağlardan beri bilinen ve 18. yüzyılda bu isimle adlandırılmaya başlanan, binyıllardır sanat eserlerinin üretiminde çoğunlukla yalın anlamda atıfta bulunulan bir kavramdır. Antropomorfik eserler genel anlamda; “insana ait biçim özelliklerin; Tanrı’ya, hayvanlara, bilhassa da nesnelere, eşyalara vb. cansız varlıklara yüklendiği yapıtlar” olarak tanı...

This paper describes the progress of the BIP2000 project. This project, in which four laboratories are involved fo r 4 years, as uimed at the realization of the lower part of a n anthropomorphic biped robot. The project couers mechanical design, control studies and computer architecture integration. The robot includes two legs, two feet, a pelvis and U trunk. It has 15 active joints. The mass d...

In this literature review we explain anthropomorphism and its role in the design of socially interactive robots and human-robot interaction. We illustrate the social phenomenon of anthropomorphism which describes people’s tendency to attribute lifelike qualities to objects and other non lifelike artifacts. We present theoretical backgrounds from social sciences, and integrate related work from ...

The gulf between user and system can be minimized by adapting the system to the user‘s natural characteristics. Socalled anthropomorphic interfaces represent one strategy of such an adaption as they are assumed to provide a more human-like and therefore more natural interaction. However, regarding the evaluation of anthropomorphic interfaces, the well-known and empirically tested instruments ar...

A 25-ft/s vertical drop test of a composite fuselage section was conducted with two energy-absorbing seats occupied by anthropomorphic dummies to evaluate the crashworthy features of the fuselage section and to determine its interaction with the seats and dummies. The 5-ft. diameter fuselage section consists of a stiff structural floor and an energy-absorbing subfloor constructed of Rohacel foa...

Research on anthropomorphic agent interfaces has produced widely divergent results. We suggest that this is due to insufficient consideration of key factors that influence the perception and effectiveness of agentbased interfaces. Thus, we propose a framework for studying anthropomorphic agents that can systematize the research. The framework emphasizes features of the agent, the user, and the ...

In this paper we stress the fact that a language and an environment for teaching object-oriented programming should support the anthropomorphic metaphor promoted by the paradigm. We show that all the cultural aspects of Smalltalk, i.e., the vocabulary and the syntax support the object metaphor. In addition, we stress that the programming environment should also support the metaphor. We show tha...

Anthropomorphic virtual agents can serve as powerful technological mediators to impact motivational outcomes such as self-efficacy and attitude change. Such anthropomorphic agents can be designed as simulated social models in the Bandurian sense, providing social influence as virtual 'role models'. Of particular value is the capacity for designing such agents as optimized social models for a ta...

This paper discusses a novel approach towards socializing non-anthropomorphic robots, which harnesses the expert knowledge of dancers to develop abstract robot morphologies and their capacity to move in affective and expressive ways. We argue that movement offers a key to socializing non-anthropomorphic robots. Our Performative Body Mapping (PBM) method investigates the possibility of teaching ...

This paper presents a grasping strategy of unknown objects imitating human grasping reflex for anthropomorphic robot hands. In the proposed grasping, each joint of the thumb and the fingers is controlled independently using the contact force affecting its adjacent fingertip side link. By setting a suitable contact force, both fingertip grasping and enveloped grasping with uniform grasping force...