7 papers
Magic in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Martin Cooney, Alexey Vinel
"Magic" is referred to here and there in the robotics literature, from "magical moments" afforded by a mobile bubble machine, to "spells" intended to entertain and motivate childre…
"Robot Steganography"?: Opportunities and Challenges
Martin Cooney, Eric Järpe, Alexey Vinel
Robots are being designed to communicate with people in various public and domestic venues in a helpful, discreet way. Here, we use a speculative approach to shine light on a new c…
AI perspectives in Smart Cities and Communities to enable road vehicle automation and smart traffic control
Cristofer Englund, Eren Erdal Aksoy, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez +3
Smart Cities and Communities (SCC) constitute a new paradigm in urban development. SCC ideates on a data-centered society aiming at improving efficiency by automating and optimizin…
Avoiding Improper Treatment of Persons with Dementia by Care Robots
Martin Cooney, Sepideh Pashami, Eric Järpe +1
The phrase "most cruel and revolting crimes" has been used to describe some poor historical treatment of vulnerable impaired persons by precisely those who should have had the resp…
Robot art, in the eye of the beholder?: Personalization through self-disclosure facilitates visual communication of emotions in representational art
Martin Cooney
Socially assistive robots could help to support people's well-being in contexts such as art therapy where human therapists are scarce, by making art such as paintings together with…
Exercising with an "Iron Man": Design for a Robot Exercise Coach for Persons with Dementia
Martin Cooney, Jacob Pihl, Hanna Larsson +2
Socially assistive robots are increasingly being designed to interact with humans in various therapeutical scenarios. We believe that one useful scenario is providing exercise coac…
Exploring home robot capabilities by medium fidelity prototyping
Martin Cooney, Sepideh Pashami, Yuantao Fan +9
In order for autonomous robots to be able to support people's well-being in homes and everyday environments, new interactive capabilities will be required, as exemplified by the so…