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Chapter 59
INTRODUCTION
Robots have been in human’s minds for centuries,
but robot technology was primarily developed
in the mid and late 20th century (Goodrich and
Schultz, 2007). At this first time, this technology
was designed for a scientific proposes to solve,
improve or increases industrial processes. Nowa-
days, their presence at home and general society
become ever more common (Argall and Billard,
2010). Then, a study of robot behavior with a hu-
man is necessary to design, understanding, and
evaluation of robotic system, that involve humans
and robots interacting through communication.
For this, multidisciplinary fields of human-robot
interaction (HRI) emerge in the mid 1990s and
early years of 2000 (Goodrich and Schultz, 2007).
Fields that help scientists to construct social
or sociable robots have contributions from lin-
guistics, psychology, philosophy, engineering,
mathematics, cognitive and computer science
(Brezeal, 2002). From a computer view, several
Renato Ramos da Silva
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roseli Aparecida Francelin Romero
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Computer Vision for Learning
to Interact Socially with Humans
ABSTRACT
Computer vision is essential to develop a social robotic system capable to interact with humans. It is
responsible to extract and represent the information around the robot. Furthermore, a learning mecha-
nism, to select correctly an action to be executed in the environment, pro-active mechanism, to engage in
an interaction, and voice mechanism, are indispensable to develop a social robot. All these mechanisms
together provide a robot emulate some human behavior, like shared attention. Then, this chapter presents
a robotic architecture that is composed with such mechanisms to make possible interactions between a
robotic head with a caregiver, through of the shared attention learning with identifcation of some objects.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3994-2.ch059