Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Publications

Journal Papers

  • "On the design of the huggable robot Probo"

    Jelle Saldien, Kristof Goris, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Werner Verhelst, Dirk Lefeber
    Journal of Physical Agents, Special Issue on Human Interaction with Domestic Robots, Vol 2, No 2 (2008)
    full paper

Conference Papers

  • "The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform (long)"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, Innes Vanderniepen, D. Lefeber
    Eurobot 2008 Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, May 22-24, 2008.
    full paper

  • "The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform (short)"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, Innes Vanderniepen, D. Lefeber
    Eurobot 2008 Conference, MATFYZPRESS, ISBN978-80-7378-042-5, pg 63-68, Heidelberg, Germany, May 22-24, 2008.
    full paper

  • "The huggable robot Probo: design of a robotic head"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, D. Lefeber
    The Reign of Catz and Dogz, AISB2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-4, 2008.
    full paper

  • "On the design of an emotional interface for the huggable robot Probo"

    J. Saldien, K. Goris, B. Vanderborght, D. Lefeber
    The Reign of Catz and Dogz, AISB2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-4, 2008.
    full paper

  • "Expressive Speech Recognition and Synthesis as Enabling Technologies for Affective Robot-Child Communication"

    Selma Yilmazyildiz, Wesley Mattheyses, Yorgos Patsis, and Werner Verhelst
    in Y. Zhuang, S. Yang, Y. Rui, Q. He (eds), Advances in Multimedia Information Processing PCM2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4261, pp. 1-8, presented at the 7 th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006.
    full paper

  • "ANTY : The development of an intelligent huggable robot for hospitalized children"

    J. Saldien, K. Goris, B. Vanderborght, B. Verrelst, R. Van Ham, D. Lefeber
    9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12 - 14, 2006, Brussels, Belgium
    full paper

  • "The Development of the Eye-System for the Intelligent Huggable Robot ANTY"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, B. Verrelst, R. Van Ham, D. Lefeber
    9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12 - 14, 2006, Brussels, Belgium
    full paper

Short Papers with/without Poster

  • "Probo, a Testbed for Human Robot Interaction"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    Human Robot Interaction 2009 Conference, San Diego, California, March 11-13, 2009.
    full paper

Books

  • "Probo, a friend for life?"

    Kristof Goris, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Jelle Saldien, Bjrn Verrelst, Werner Verhelst, Dirk Lefeber
    section in Brave New Interfaces
    Jan Cornelis, Marleen Wynants, editors, Crosstalks, VUB Brussels University Press, 2007.

Magazines

  • "Probo, een knuffelrobot voor gehospitaliseerde kinderen"

    Jelle Saldien en Kristof Goris De Connectie, nummer 4, jaargang 3, November 2008.
    artikel (in Dutch)

Master Thesis

  • "COMMUNICATION OF EMOTIONS FOR E-CREATURES"

    Selma Yilmazyildiz, Promotor Prof. Werner Verhelst
    Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's degree of Applied Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2005-2006
    download thesis

  • "PROBO: A FRIEND FOR LIFE"

    Jelle Saldien, Promotor Prof. Dirk Lefeber
    Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's degree of Product Development, Hogeschool Antwerpen, 2004-2005
    download thesis

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