Social Roles and Baseline Proxemic Preferences for a Domestic Service Robot

© The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. The work described in this paper was conducted within the EU Integrated Projects LIREC (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions, funded by the European Commission under contract numbers FP7 215554, and partly funded by the ACCOMPANY project, a part of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n287624The goal of our research is to develop socially acceptable behavior for domestic robots in a setting where a user and the robot are sharing the same physical space and interact with each other in close proximity. Specifically, our research focuses on approach distances and directions in the context of a robot handing over an object to a userPeer reviewe

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The Existence of Awig-Awig as a Basis in the Development of Hidden Canyon Tourism Destinations by Local Communities in Guwang Village, Gianyar District, Bali

According to Koentjaraningrat (2003: 76) the cultural value system is the highest and most abstract level of customs because cultural values consist of concepts regarding everything that is considered valuable and important by society so that it can function as a guide in their lives. This can be seen in the various rules applied in Guwang Village, such as not being allowed to sell land because the land belongs to the adat village; it is forbidden to cut down trees without village permission; for tourists who want to visit the Hidden Canyon Beji Guwang tour, they must obey the established rules, such as wearing a scarf and not entering the temple during menstruation; and tourists are also expected not to visit sacred places past the specified time. The research method used is qualitative with a qualitative descriptive research approach that aims to describe, describe, summarize various conditions, situations or variables that arise in the community that are the object of research. This research will be conducted in Hidden Canyon Tourist Destination, Guwang. by applying a purposive random sampling data collection technique. Overall, awig-awig has a very important role in the development of Hidden Canyon tourist destinations. Through the implementation of awig-awig, Hidden Canyon can be preserved, maintain the culture and social life of the local community, and provide a safe and comfortable experience for visitors. Thus, awig-awig becomes a strong foundation in the development of sustainable and responsible tourist destinations in Hidden Canyon

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Toward Effective Physical Human-Robot Interaction

With the fast advancement of technology, in recent years, robotics technology has significantly matured and produced robots that are able to operate in unstructured environments such as domestic environments, offices, hospitals and other human-inhabited locations. In this context, the interaction and cooperation between humans and robots has become an important and challenging aspect of robot development. Among the various kinds of possible interactions, in this Ph.D. thesis I am particularly interested in physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). In order to study how a robot can successfully engage in physical interaction with people and which factors are crucial during this kind of interaction, I investigated how humans and robots can hand over objects to each other. To study this specific interactive task I developed two robotic prototypes and conducted human-robot user studies. Although various aspects of human-robot handovers have been deeply investigated in the state of the art, during my studies I focused on three issues that have been rarely investigated so far: Human presence and motion analysis during the interaction in order to infer non-verbal communication cues and to synchronize the robot actions with the human motion; Development and evaluation of human-aware pro-active robot behaviors that enable robots to behave actively in the proximity of the human body in order to negotiate the handover location and to perform the transfer of the object; Consideration of objects grasp affordances during the handover in order to make the interaction more comfortable for the human

Students’ Perception of Teachers Nonverbal Immediacy Behavior toward Students’ Attitude and Motivation in Learning English

The objectives of the research were to provide information about students’ perception of teachers’ nonverbal immediacy behavior toward students’ attitude and motivation in learning English. This research is descriptive by nature employing mixed method QUAN-qual model. Participants of this research were the students of X IIS 2 and XI MIA 4 who were taught by male and female teacher. The data were obtained from questionnaire, group interview, and observation. The data from questionnaire were analyzed by using simple descriptive statistic and the data from interview and observation were analyzed by using interactive model of data analysis procedure consisting data collection, data reduction, and data display, and conclusion drawing. The finding showed that the mean score of students’ attitude was 76.56 under category positive attitude. The mean score of students’ motivation was 75.43 under category motivated. The students perceived that teachers’ nonverbal immediacy behavior influenced their attitude and motivation positively or negatively depending on particularr determinant factors such as religion, culture, and age. The findings led to the onclusion that managing nonverbal immediacy behaviors was very important for teachers because the behaviors could help changing students’ attitude from negative attitude became positive attitude and changing students motivation from demotivated became motivated during learning process in the class.Key words: Nonverbal immediacy behavior, attitude, motivation

How Technology Can Be Integrated Into The Seventh Grade Mathematics Classroom To Ensure A Positive Impact On Student Learning And Engagement

In recent years, there has been a movement for more technology in classrooms across the country. With this new movement, many teachers and students have been hesitant on where to begin and how to use technology in the classroom. This movement in education led for the author to explore the following research question: How can meaningful technology resources be integrated into the seventh grade mathematics classroom to ensure a positive impact on student learning and engagement? This Capstone records one teacher’s creation of a website designed to offer students and teachers an array of resources in one location for the middle school math classroom, while aligning to the Minnesota State Mathematics Standards

CoGrasp: 6-DoF Grasp Generation for Human-Robot Collaboration

Robot grasping is an actively studied area in robotics, mainly focusing on the quality of generated grasps for object manipulation. However, despite advancements, these methods do not consider the human-robot collaboration settings where robots and humans will have to grasp the same objects concurrently. Therefore, generating robot grasps compatible with human preferences of simultaneously holding an object becomes necessary to ensure a safe and natural collaboration experience. In this paper, we propose a novel, deep neural network-based method called CoGrasp that generates human-aware robot grasps by contextualizing human preference models of object grasping into the robot grasp selection process. We validate our approach against existing state-of-the-art robot grasping methods through simulated and real-robot experiments and user studies. In real robot experiments, our method achieves about 88\% success rate in producing stable grasps that also allow humans to interact and grasp objects simultaneously in a socially compliant manner. Furthermore, our user study with 10 independent participants indicated our approach enables a safe, natural, and socially-aware human-robot objects' co-grasping experience compared to a standard robot grasping technique