Dag Sverre Syrdal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dag Sverre Syrdal is involved.
2020 Robot-Mediated Interviews: A field trial with a potential real-world user Interaction Studies 21:2, pp. 243–267 | Article
In recent years the possibility of using humanoid robots to perform interviews with children has been explored in a number of studies. This paper details a study in which a potential real-world user trialled a Robot-Mediated Interviewing system with children to establish if this approach could… read more
2016 Robot-Mediated interviews with Children: What do potential users think? Interaction Studies 17:3, pp. 438–460 | Article
To date research investigating the potential of Robot-Mediated Interviews (RMI) has focused on establishing how children respond to robots in an interview scenario. In order to test if an RMI approach would work in a real world setting, it is important to establish what the experts (e.g.… read more
2011 Helping robots imitate: Acknowledgment of, and adaptation to, the robot’s feedback to a human task demonstration New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction, Dautenhahn, Kerstin and Joe Saunders (eds.), pp. 9–34 | Article
Towards informing the design of more ‘natural’ (non-expert) human–robot interaction (HRI) systems, this chapter presents two studies, focusing on a scenario where a human has to teach a robot how to perform an everyday household task.The first study considered the humans’ acknowledgment of feedback… read more
2008 Naturally occurring gestures in a human–robot teaching scenario Interaction Studies 9:3, pp. 519–550 | Article
This paper describes our general framework for the investigation of how human gestures can be used to facilitate the interaction and communication between humans and robots. Two studies were carried out to reveal which “naturally occurring” gestures can be observed in a scenario where users had to… read more