Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in human-robot-interaction.
- Cozmo (Cozmo Robot)
- A small, toy-like robot originally developed by Anki, featuring tracked wheels, a lift arm with a fork, and a screen face that displays animated eyes and emotive behaviours. Cozmo includes face recogn…
- Embodied Agent (Embodied Conversational Agent, Embodied AI)
- An interactive system that is represented in physical or graphical form with a body, face, or avatar, allowing it to communicate with users through multiple modalities such as speech, gesture, gaze, a…
- Mirroring (Behavioural Mirroring, Imitative Reciprocity)
- The tendency of people in social interaction to unconsciously or deliberately copy each other's postures, gestures, expressions, and speech patterns, which psychology research identifies as a non-verb…
- Paro (Paro Robot, Paro Seal)
- A socially assistive robot shaped like a baby harp seal, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, designed to provide companionship and therapeutic engage…
- Pepper (Pepper Robot)
- A 120 cm semi-humanoid social robot developed by SoftBank Robotics (originally with Aldebaran Robotics), featuring articulated arms with 20 degrees of freedom, LED eyes capable of gaze behaviours, an …
- Robo-Identity (Robot Identity, Robot Persona)
- An emerging concept in human-robot interaction research referring to the identity or persona a robot takes on, as perceived and co-constructed by the people it interacts with. Robo-identity is not a f…