6 new deliverables have been released
At the end of October, six new Deliverables have been released according to the CARESSES work plan: D1.2, Basic guidelines […]
Conference Article: Informative Sequential Selection of Variable-Sized Patches for Image Retrieval
Zhihao Shen, Hosun Lee, Sungmoon Jeong, Nak Young Chong, “Informative Sequential Selection of Variable-Sized Patches for Image Retrieval,” Proc. SICE […]
Conference Article: Paving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper
Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that […]
Conference Article: Encoding Cultures in Robot Emotion Representation
Cultural differences may influence interactions between humans with different social norms and cultural traits, incurring different emotional and behavioral responses. […]
Journal Article: Caring robots are here to help
Nurse researchers and scientists developing culturally sensitive care robots say there is nothing to fear – in fact there’s much […]
Conference Article: Informative Sequential Patch Selection for Image Retrieval
To quickly and efficiently analyze a large-scale environment by the camera with limited field-of-view, intelligent systems should sequentially select the […]
Conference Article: Learning Human Behavior for Emotional Body Expression in Socially Assistive Robotics
Generating emotional body expressions for socially assistive robots has been gaining increased attention to enhance the engagement and empathy in […]
Conference Article: Learning Social Relations for Culture Aware Interaction (Outstanding paper award)
Each person has their private physical and/or psychological area where they do not want to share with others during social […]
Conference Article: Bridging Between universAAL and ECHONET for Smart Home Environment
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) pursues the issues of how information and communication technology (ICT) is used to support the quality […]
Conference Article: A framework for Culture-aware Robots based on Fuzzy Logic
Cultural adaptation, i.e., the matching of a robot’s behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a […]
Conference Article: Modelling the Influence of Cultural Information on Vision-Based Human Home Activity Recognition
Daily life activities, such as eating and sleeping, are deeply influenced by a person’s culture, hence generating differences in the […]
Conference Article: The CARESSES EU-Japan project: making assistive robots culturally competent
The nursing literature shows that cultural competence is an important requirement for effective healthcare. We claim that personal assistive robots […]
Journal Article: Perceived Comfortableness of Anthropomorphized Robots in U.S. and Japan
This study focuses on cultural differences in perceptions of comfortableness with robots that have either positive or negative anthropomorphic features. […]
Conference Article: Personalized Robot Emotion Representation through Retrieval of Memories (Best presentation award)
We present a robot emotion representation model by investigating the role of human-inspired social effects and memory retrieval process. Social […]