Social Robotics : Third International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 24-25, 2011. Proceedings

This 4-Volume-Set, CCIS 0251 - CCIS 0254, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science, ICIEIS 2011, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2011. The 210 revised full papers presented together with invited papers in the 4 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-learning, information security, software engineering, image processing, algorithms, artificial intelligence and soft computing, e-commerce, data mining, neural networks, social networks, grid computing, biometric technologies, networks, distributed and parallel computing, wireless networks, information and data management, web applications and software systems, multimedia, ad hoc networks, mobile computing, as well as miscellaneous topics in digital information and communications. Front Matter....Pages - Interaction Scenarios for HRI in Public Space....Pages 1-10 MAWARI: A Social Interface to Reduce the Workload of the Conversation....Pages 11-20 Design of Robust Robotic Proxemic Behaviour....Pages 21-30 Effects of Gesture on the Perception of Psychological Anthropomorphism: A Case Study with a Humanoid Robot....Pages 31-41 Eight Lessons Learned about Non-verbal Interactions through Robot Theater....Pages 42-51 Proxemic Feature Recognition for Interactive Robots: Automating Metrics from the Social Sciences....Pages 52-61 Children Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Robot....Pages 62-70 Making Robots Persuasive: The Influence of Combining Persuasive Strategies (Gazing and Gestures) by a Storytelling Robot on Its Persuasive Power....Pages 71-83 BEHAVE: A Set of Measures to Assess Users’ Attitudinal and Non-verbal Behavioral Responses to a Robot’s Social Behaviors....Pages 84-94 Initial Formation of Trust: Designing an Interaction with Geminoid-DK to Promote a Positive Attitude for Cooperation....Pages 95-103 Minimal Group - Maximal Effect? Evaluation and Anthropomorphization of the Humanoid Robot NAO....Pages 104-113 Homewrecker 2.0: An Exploration of Liability for Heart Balm Torts Involving AI Humanoid Consorts....Pages 114-124 Examining the Frankenstein Syndrome....Pages 125-134 The Effects of a Robot Instructor’s Positive vs. Negative Feedbacks on Attraction and Acceptance towards the Robot in Classroom....Pages 135-141 Engkey: Tele-education Robot....Pages 142-152 Motivating Children to Learn Arithmetic with an Adaptive Robot Game....Pages 153-162 Attitude towards Robots Depends on Interaction But Not on Anticipatory Behaviour....Pages 163-172 Listening to Sad Music While Seeing a Happy Robot Face....Pages 173-182 Analysis of Bluffing Behavior in Human-Humanoid Poker Game....Pages 183-192 Evaluating Supportive and Instructive Robot Roles in Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 193-203 People’s Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?....Pages 204-213 RoboCup@Home: Adaptive Benchmarking of Robot Bodies and Minds....Pages 214-225 Requirements and Platforms for Social Agents That Alarm and Support Elderly Living Alone....Pages 226-235 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2011. The 23 revised full papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social interaction with robots; nonverbal interaction with social robots; robots in society; social robots in education; affective interaction with social robots; robots in the home.