The end-user programming of social robot behavior is usually limited by a predefined set of
movements. We are proposing a puppeteering robotic interface that provides a more …

Designing and authoring gestures for socially expressive robots has been an increasingly
important problem in recent years. In this demo we present a new pipeline that enables …

The aim of our work is to make it easier for non-programmers to program robot motion. We
designed a system that translates human motion to motion of a (virtual and physical) …

Assistive robotic platforms have recently gained popularity in various healthcare
applications, and their use has expanded to social settings such as education, tourism, and …

Movement and embodiment are communicative affordances central to social robotics, but
designing embodied movements for robots often requires extensive knowledge of both …

Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) is a technique that is popular for prototyping and generating expressive
movement behaviours in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This technique often …

For social robots to succeed in places such as homes, they must learn new skills from
various people and act in a manner desirable to different users. We introduce a novel …

Robot animation is a new form of character animation that extends the traditional process by
allowing the animated motion to become more interactive and adaptable during interaction …

This paper presents ERIK, an inverse kinematics technique for robot animation that is able to
control a real expressive manipulator-like robot in real-time, by simultaneously solving for …

End-user robot programming methods have come a long way in enabling users who do not
have conventional robotics training to customize robot behaviors. However, such methods …