Christoph Bartneck, Ph.D. | University of Canterbury, HIT Lab NZ

The Press reports on our colour study

The Press reports today on our study Semi-Automatic Color Analysis For Brand Logos. The article focuses on the national flag section of our paper. According to The Press, I am the acting director of the HIT Lab NZ! Oh well, at least they spelled my name correctly....
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HRI promotion at University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury is currently running a new campaign and we had the privilege of showcasing our work. The photo was taken at a professional studio and shows a typical human-robot interaction study setup....
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Death by robot – who will be to blame?

We are currently systematically using tools to kill each other and even autonomous machines are a tried and tested method to kill humans, both soldiers and civilians. Land mines are maybe one of the best examples for such autonomous killing machines, although they are of course...
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"Making Human-Robot Interaction Enjoyable"

Sounds easy, I wish it was!

CHI, a community of procrastinators?

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Oct 9, 2013 in Culture, Event | 0 comments

I just visited the Precision Conference website for SIGCHI and it shows the number of logins for the last couple of days. It is amazing how dramatically it spiked on the day of the submission deadline. The CHI community seems to be filled with deadline junkies. For a community that is interested in improving the human experience, we cannot be proud of ourselves.

University of Canterbury 2013 Bridge Building Competition

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Oct 7, 2013 in Documentation, Event | 0 comments

Here are some fun scenes from today’s Bridge Building Competition. The water was freezing and all students took a dive.

Robots In The Theater and Media

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Sep 19, 2013 in Research | 0 comments

I produced a little video about my paper on Robots In The Theater and Media.

The aging process

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Sep 11, 2013 in Design | 0 comments

This aging process is just amazing. Take your time to watch the full movie.

HRI promotion at University of Canterbury

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Sep 4, 2013 in Design, Featured | 0 comments

The University of Canterbury is currently running a new campaign and we had the privilege of showcasing our work. The photo was taken at a professional studio and shows a typical human-robot interaction study setup.

ZIP upload at Elsevier’s Editorial System is broken

Posted by Christoph Bartneck on Sep 4, 2013 in Documentation | 0 comments

I am guilty of using a Mac. It can create ZIP files directly in the Finder. But the Editorial System of Elsevier cannot handle these ZIP files. So I decided to try another tool to create ZIP files: iZIP. I uploaded that ZIP file and Elsevier still complains that the archive was corrupted. It is amazing how Elsevier continues to fail to offer a reasonable upload tool.