Social Robotics 4th International Conference, ICSR 2012, Chengdu, Ch
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012. The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The paper
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Shuzhi Sam Ge Oussama Khatib John-John Cabibihan Reid Simmons Mary-Anne Williams (Eds.)
Social Robotics 4th International Conference, ICSR 2012 Chengdu, China, October 29-31, 2012 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Shuzhi Sam Ge National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611813, China E-mail: [email protected] Oussama Khatib Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA E-mail: [email protected] John-John Cabibihan National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore E-mail: [email protected] Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected] Mary-Anne Williams University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-34102-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34103-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012948600 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, C.2.4, I.2.9, K.4.2, H.5.2, J.4, I.2.10 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Welcome to the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). The conference was held during October 29–31, 2012, at Chengdu, China. Since its inception in 2009, the ICSR series of conferences have brought researchers together to report and discuss the latest progress in the field of social robotics in a collegial, supportive, and constructive atmosphere. The ICSR conferences focus on the interaction between humans and robots, and the integration of robots into our society. The theme o
