Communication using manual (hand) gestures is considered a defining property of social
robots, and their physical embodiment and presence, therefore, we see a need for a …

In this paper, the application of Augmented Reality (AR) for the control and adjustment of
robots has been developed, with the aim of making interaction and adjustment of robots …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal …

Nowadays a significant part of human-human interaction takes place over distance. Tele-
operated robot avatars, in which an operator's behaviours are portrayed by a robot proxy …

Collaboration between human and robot requires effective modes of communication to
assign robot tasks and coordinate activities. As communication can utilize different …

We propose a methodology for a robot to automatically generate felicitous co-speech
gestures corresponding to robot utterances. First, the proposed method determines the part …

Humanoid robot avatars are a potential new telecommunication tool, whereby a user is
remotely represented by a robot that replicates their arm, head, and possible face …

Robotic telepresence aims to create a physical presence for a remotely located human
(teleoperator) by reproducing their verbal and nonverbal behaviours (eg speech, gestures …

In this paper we investigate robot to human Interpersonal Emotion Transfer (IET) in a real
world contextualised human-robot interaction (HRI). IET is an umbrella term which describes …

In this paper, we report a breaching study to explore the use of a tele-operated humanoid
avatar from both the perspective of the robot operator and the perspective of interlocutors …