Издательство InTech, 2007, -532 pp.Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has been an important research area during the last decade. As robots have become increasingly more versatile, they have been useful in a variety of applications where the robots and human are expected to interact very closely. It has thus become necessary to clearly understand the nature of human-robot interaction so that new tools and techniques can be developed to allow human and robot to work together in a seamless, robust and natural manner.Human-robot interaction research is diverse and covers a wide range of topics. All aspects of human factors and robotics are within the purview of HRI research so far as they provide insight into how to improve our understanding in developing effective tools, protocols, and systems to enhance HRI. For example, a significant research effort is being devoted to designing human-robot interface that makes it easier for the people to interact with robots. Researchers are investigating how to improve the current interfaces so that multiple users can interact with multiple robots simultaneously. There are ongoing efforts to understand how to effectively incorporate multi-modal interaction capabilities within HRI. The role of emotion in HRI is also another important research area so that human and robot can understand each other’s affective expressions. Developing suitable control architecture that facilitates versatile human-robot teaming and collaboration is essential for HRI. Such a control architecture proposes the basis for interaction and drives further research into sensor development, communication modes and protocols, and system development. Additionally, a large part of HRI research involves applying and learning lessons from various human-robot applications.It is neither possible nor is it our intention to cover every important work in this important research field in one volume. HRI is an extremely active research field where new and important work is being published at a fast pace. However, we believe that HRI as a research field has matured enough to merit a compilation of the outstanding work in the field in the form of a book. This book, which presents outstanding work from the leading HRI researchers covering a wide spectrum of topics, is an effort to capture and present some of the important contributions in HRI in one volume. I hope that this book will benefit both experts and novice and provide a thorough understanding of the exciting field of HRI.Adaptive Personal Space for Humanizing Mobile Robots The Potential for Modeling Human-Robot Interaction with GOMS Supporting Complex Robot Behaviors with Simple Interaction Tools Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Collaboration Robots That Learn Language: A Developmental Approach to Situated Human-Robot ConversationsRecognizing Human Pose and Actions for Interactive Robots Development of Service Robot System With Multiple Human User InterfaceHuman-Robot Interface for end effectors From Saying to Doing – Natural Language Interaction with Artificial Agents and RobotsCan robots replace dogs? Comparison of temporal patterns in dog-human and robot-human interactionsA Facial Expression Imitation System for the Primitive of Intuitive Human-Robot InteractionEvaluating Emotion Expressing Robots in Affective Space Cognitive Robotic Engine: Behavioral Perception Architecture for Human-Robot InteractionContact Task by Force Feedback Teleoperation Under Communication Time DelayWhat People Assume about Robots: Cross-Cultural Analysis between Japan, Korea, and the USAPosture and movement estimation based on reduced information. Application to the context of FES-based control of lower-limbs.Intelligent Space as a Platform for Human Observation Semiotics and Human-Robot Interaction Effect of Robot and Screen Agent .Recommendations on Human Decision-MakingCollective Motion of Multi-Robot System based on Simple Dynamics Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Actuators for Active Physiological Tremor CompensationAutomatic Speech Recognition of Human-Symbiotic Robot EMIEWMixed-initiative multirobot control in USAR Robotic Musicianship – Musical Interactions Between Humans and MachinesPossibilities of force based interaction with robot manipulators Designing Simple and Effective Expression of Robot’s Primitive Minds to a HumanHand Posture Segmentation, Recognition and Application for Human-Robot InteractionPlaying Games with Robots – A Method for Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction