Since the concept of a smart city was introduced, IoT (Internet Things) has beenconsidered key infrastructure in city. However, there are currently no detailed explanations technical contributions terms management, development, and improvements cities. Therefore, current study describes importance technologies on technology roadmap (TRM) Moreover, survey with about 200 experts conducted to investigate both essentiality detail components for Based results, focal points essential elements...

In human-human interactions, corepresenting a partner's actions is crucial to successfully adjust and coordinate with others. Current research suggests that action corepresentation restricted interactions between human agents facilitating social interaction conspecifics. this study, we investigated whether corepresentation, as measured by the Simon effect (SSE), present when share task real humanoid robot. Further, tested believed humanness of robot's functional principle modulates extent...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand users' acceptance service robots by integrating perceived enjoyment and need belong in a technology model (TAM) framework. Service are currently being used homes firms provide various services. Design/methodology/approach authors conducted web‐based survey from 904 users South Korea test research employed structural equation modelling as the analysis method. Findings This study found that played an important role ease use usefulness robots....

The articles in this special section focus on robotis measurement techniques. report replicable experiments,benchmarking methods, and a couple of exemplary surveys competitions.

Technological advances are being made to assist humans in performing ordinary tasks everyday settings. A key issue is the interaction with objects of varying size, shape, and degree mobility. Autonomous assistive robots must be provided ability process visual data real time so that they can react adequately for quickly adapting changes environment. Reliable object detection recognition usually a necessary early step achieve this goal. In spite significant research achievements, still remains...

Since the introduction of corporate social responsibility (CSR), it has become an important duty companies and organizations. In addition, academic industry researchers have attempted to explore effects on firm performance. To this end, study examined how service quality are notably associated with customer satisfaction behavioral intention use by employing a structural equation modeling method. A research model nine constructs was introduced findings revealed that economic, social,...

This paper presents and analyzes 12 quality measures that characterize robotic grips according to their stability reliability. The are designed assess three-finger of two-dimensional parts performed in a real environment, taking into account both theoretical aspects unavoidable uncertainties grasping action. They build on the existing literature physical mechanical considerations. constitute feature space pattern recognition methods can use order classify quality. Six depend actual finger...

Following the law of attraction in human-human interaction, this paper examines effects a robot's personality and human's various human-robot interactions. This study was conducted using robots that were programmed to mimic both extroverted introverted types, as well humans who classified having introverted, or intermediate types. Using 3 × 2 between-subjects experiment with 120 participants, results indicated participants interacted similar robot more comfortable than those engaged...

Primates often perform coordinated eye and arm movements, contextually fixating reaching towards nearby objects. This combination of looking to the same target is used by infants establish an implicit visuomotor representation peripersonal space, useful for both oculomotor motor control. In this work, taking inspiration from such behavior primate mechanisms, a shared sensorimotor map environment, built on radial basis function framework, configured trained control movements. Computational...

The South Korean government has long been attempting to reduce the nation’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels and increase environmental safety by developing installing renewable power generation infrastructures implementing policies for promoting green growth of Korea’s energy industry. This study focuses use independent systems in more than 3000 officially affirmed islands off coast proposes a simulated solution electricity load demand Ulleungdo Island that incorporates several sources...

With the rapid development of s-commerce and CGI technology, concept "virtual influencer" has emerged is rapidly growing in popularity social media network service (e.g., Instagram). This paper investigated effects number types actors contents Instagram on users' reactions. To identify this, we collected comments from virtual influencers' accounts conducted sentiment analysis. The results showed that users tend to use more words 3rd-person pronouns with multiple including influencer than a...

Autonomous manipulation is a key issue for humanoid robot. Here, we are interested in vision-based grasping behavior so that the robot can deal with previously unknown objects real time and an intelligent manner. Starting from number of feasible candidate grasps, focus on problem predicting their reliability using knowledge acquired previous experiences. A set visual features which take into account physical properties affect stability grasp defined. obtains its experience by repeating large...