New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction

1. Introduction (by Dautenhahn, Kerstin); 2. The human in the loop; 3. Helping robots imitate: Acknowledgment of, and adaptation to, the robot's feedback to a human task demonstration (by Alissandrakis, Aris); 4. The role of expectations and situations in human-robot interaction (by Lohse, Manja); 5. Validating characterizations of sociality in HRI: It's more than psychometrics (by Kahn, Jr., Peter H.); 6. Attitudes toward robots and factors influencing them (by Nomura, Tatsuya); 7. The USUS evaluation framework for user-centered HRI (by Weiss, Astrid); 8. Toward making robots invisible-in-use: An exploration into invisible-in-use tools and agents (by Takayama, Leila); 9. Joint action, collaboration and communication; 10. A dynamic field approach to goal inference, error detection and anticipatory action selection in human-robot collaboration (by Bicho, Estela); 11. Accessing robot acceptance by motor interference (by Kupferberg, Aleksandra); 12. Evaluation of robot body movements supporting communication: Towards HRI on the move (by Bogdan, Cristian); 13. The acquisition of word semantics by a humanoid robot via interaction with a human tutor (by Saunders, Joe); 14. Communication robots: Application challenges of human-robot interaction (by Kanda, Takayuki); 15. Designing domestic robots with personality (by Meerbeek, Bernt); 16. Robots in therapy, safety and communication; 17. Touch-triggered withdrawal reflexes for safer robots (by Dahl, Torbjorn S.); 18. Rehabilitation robots (by Amirabdollahian, Farshid); 19. Notes; 20. Index