Helge Ritter • Gerhard Sagerer • Rüdiger Dillmann Martin Buss (Eds.) 1 Human Centered Robot Systems The Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS) publish new developments and advances in the fields of cognitive systems research, rapidly and informally but with a high quality. The intent is to bridge cognitive brain science and biology with engineering disciplines. It covers all the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects of cognitive systems, such as Bionics, System Analysis, System Modelling, System Design, Human Motion, Understanding, Human Activity Understanding, Man-Machine Interaction, Smart and Cognitive Environments, Human and Computer Vision, Neuroinformatics, Humanoids, Biologically motivated systems and artefacts Autonomous Systems, Linguistics, Sports Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Biosignal Processing, or Cognitive Materials as well as the mothodologies behind them. Within the scope of the series are monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops, as well as selected PhD theses. Ritter et al. (Eds.) Human Centered Robot Systems Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on “Human Centered Robotic Systems” held on November 19–20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers from the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and biology who are all focusing on a shared goal of cognitive interaction. A survey of recent approaches, the current state-of-the-art, and possible future directions in this interdisciplinary field is presented. It provides practitioners and scientists with an up-to-date introduction to this dynamic field, with methods and solutions that are likely to significantly impact on our future lives. S pringer.com ISBN 978-3-642-10402-2 COGNITIVE SYSTEMS MONOGRAPHS Helge Ritter Gerhard Sagerer Rüdiger Dillmann Martin Buss (Eds.) Human Centered Robot Systems Cognition, Interaction, Technology 1 3 COSMOS 6 COSMOS 6 9 783 64 21 04 02 2