The Spanish translation of the Godspeed Questionnaire Series was contributed by Javier Ruiz-del-Solar and the Mobile Robotics Laboratory at the Universidad de Chile. The questionnaire series allows researchers to measure the anthropomorphism, animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and perceived safety of robots.
Category: Research
Robotics Laboratory
The Designed Intelligence Group at the Department of Industrial Design (Eindhoven University of Technology) use the Robotics Laboratory to explore autonomous systems and their interaction with users. Besides existing hardware platforms, such as the iCat, or Nao, we also developed our own educational robot AdMoVeo. We also massively use Mindstorm NXT and a complete Noldus Observers system, including Biosensors. Please contact Christoph Bartneck if you have any questions about the laboratory.
The following projects and education courses take advantage of the facilities:
The following PhD students are associated to the laboratory:
We also have some professional photos of the iCat Robot and Nao vs. Aibo.
Photos of Philips iCat Robot
Today we took some nice pictures of the iCat robot from Philips. With the help of Omar Mubin, we have been able to get some good expression from the cat.
Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
A recent study on the costs and benefit of research communication revealed that an open access strategy would safe the Netherlands millions of Euros per year. It is one of the first studies that even calculate the costs of writing funding proposals and the costs of total costs of publishing an article. Have a look at it for yourself: Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation.
Human Interface
I always suspected that computers, in particular the new multi-touch tables, work like this:
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.