Encounters : from talking heads to swarming heads

Damith C. Herath; Christian Kroos; X Stelarc

doi:10.1145/2157689.2157825

Encounters : from talking heads to swarming heads

Damith C. Herath, Christian Kroos, X Stelarc

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Abstract

![CDATA[Robots at home and work has been a key theme in science fiction since the genre began. It is only now that we see this come in to realization, albeit in very basic forms such as the robot vacuum cleaners and various entertainment robotic platforms. In this video we highlight a number of projects woven around the iRobot Create research robot platform and an embodied conversational agent called the Prosthetic Head - an installation work by Stelarc. We start the visual journey by taking a satirical look at some of the parallels between a commercial communication product and the Prosthetic Head. The journey then moves through telepresence robotics, gesture based robot human interaction. The robots featured in the video are driven by an attention and behavioral system. Finally, the video concludes with a preview of the "Swarming Heads" - an interactive installation.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI' 12: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: March 5 - 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	415-416
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	9781450310635
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157825
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Duration: 5 Mar 2012 → …

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Conference	ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Period	5/03/12 → …

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robotics
talking heads
artificial intelligence

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Herath, DC, Kroos, C & Stelarc, X 2012, Encounters : from talking heads to swarming heads. in HRI' 12: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: March 5 - 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 415-416, ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 5/03/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157825

Encounters : from talking heads to swarming heads. / Herath, Damith C.; Kroos, Christian; Stelarc, X.
HRI' 12: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: March 5 - 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 415-416.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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