ABSTRACT
This special issue is made up of five articles which cover the emerging area of human-robot interaction. The first paper offers a theoretical ecological framework for the design of personal service robots in homes of elderly people. Next, a field study of two robots that visited a children's elementary school in Japan for two weeks, with the purpos
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction
part |1 pages
Assistive Robotics and an Ecology of Elders Living Independently in Their Homes
part |2 pages
Interactive Robots as Social Partners and Peer Tutors for Children: A Field Trial
part |2 pages
Moonlight in Miami: A Field Study of Human-Robot Interaction in the Context of an Urban Search and Rescue Disaster Response Training Exercise
part |2 pages
Beyond Usability Evaluation: Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction at a Major Robotics Competition
part |2 pages
Whose Job Is It Anyway? A Study of Human-Robot Interaction in a Collaborative Task
