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Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study on Learning by Demonstration with HOAP-3

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

This article reports on the results of a user study investigating the satisfaction of naïve users conducting two learning by demonstration tasks with the HOAP-3 robot. The main goal of this study was to gain insights on how to ensure a successful as well a ...

2009

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The central idea behind this attempt is to merge common objects and robotics to obtain a new type of interactive artefact, we call robjects. Robjects provide services to everyday life and can be controlled by the user in a very intuitive way. Robjects take ...

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Interaction design guidelines on critiquing-based recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

A critiquing-based recommender system acts like an artificial salesperson. It engages users in a conversational dialog where users can provide feedback in the form of critiques to the sample items that were shown to them. The feedback, in turn, enables the ...

Springer Netherlands2009

User decision improvement and trust building in product recommender systems

Li Chen

As online stores are offering an almost unlimited shelf space, users must increasingly rely on product search and recommender systems to find their most preferred products and decide which item is the truly best one to buy. However, much research work has ...

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Laurent Cevey

This user manual's purpose is to help the user to get familiar with the miniature suscep- tometer (MSM) and to allow them to make use of it in the most conscious manner. It also contains instructions and advice on the last tasks to be done before putting t ...

2008

Preference-based search with suggestions

Paolo Viappiani

The internet provides an unprecedented variety of opportunities to people. Whether looking for a place to go on vacation, an apartment to rent, or a PC to buy, the potential customer is faced with countless possibilities. Most people have difficulty findin ...

EPFL2007

Trust-inspiring explanation interfaces for recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

A recommender system's ability to establish trust with users and convince them of its recommendations, such as which camera or PC to purchase, is a crucial design factor especially for e-commerce environments. This observation led us to build a trust model ...

Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1000 AE, Netherlands2007

A comparison of two compound critiquing systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

Compound critiques allow users to simultaneously express directional preferences over several product attributes. Presenting the user with compound critiques is not a new idea. The original Find-Me Systems (e.g., Car Navigator) showed static compound criti ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007

Bayesian Controller for a Novel Semi-Autonomous Navigation Concept

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This paper presents a novel concept of semi-autonomous navigation where a mobile robot evolves autonomously under the monitoring of a human user. The user provides corrective commands to the robot whenever he disagrees with the robot's navigational choices ...

2007

Explicit Passive Analysis in Electronic Catalogs

Martin Rajman, David Portabella Clotet

We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We compare 6 existing approaches in terms of user or system-centric, implicit or explicit use of preferences, assumptions used and their behavi ...

2006