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BeatBots
Head: Marek Piotr Michalowski
Contact: Marek Piotr Michalowski (n/a)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC
Associated lab/group: Human-Robot Interaction Group

For more information, see this project's homepage.

Human social interaction involves the temporal coordination of rhythmic communicative behaviors. BeatBots is a project to develop technologies and methodologies for human-robot interaction that incorporate the rhythmic properties of human interactive behavior. We are developing small nonverbal robots capable of participating in dance-oriented play with children. Our architecture enables the robots to perceive and generate rhythms, with the goal of intelligently using these rhythms to anticipate and guide changes in dynamic, compelling interactions.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Jodi Forlizzi - Associate Professor, HCII <forlizzi@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Marek Piotr Michalowski - PhD Student, RI <n/a>
• [Home] Illah Nourbakhsh - Associate Professor <illah@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Reid Simmons - Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS <reids@cs.cmu.edu>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Rhythmic synchrony for attractive human-robot interaction
  H. Kozima and M.P. Michalowski
  Proceedings of Entertainment Computing 2007, October, 2007. [Abstract]

• Methodological issues in facilitating rhythmic play with robots
  M.P. Michalowski and H. Kozima
  Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2007), IEEE, August, 2007, pp. 95-100. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1515 KB] copyrighted

• A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and H. Kozima
  Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), ACM, March, 2007, pp. 89 - 96. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2110 KB] copyrighted

• Roillo: Creating a social robot for playrooms
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and P. Michel
  Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), IEEE, September, 2006, pp. 587 - 592. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [368 KB] copyrighted