iCat

iCat is a plug & play desktop user-interface robot that is capable of mechanically rendering facial expressions. This capability makes the robot ideal for studying human-robot interaction. The robot has been made available by Philips Research (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) to stimulate research in this area further and in particular to stimulate research topics such as social robotics, human-robot collaboration, joint-attention, gaming, and ambient intelligence.



Affiliation: Philips Research

Project Website: http://www.hitech-projects.com/icat/index.php

Vicon Face

Proximity Toolkit is a toolkit that simplifies the exploration of interaction techniques based on proximity and orientations of people, tools, and large digital surfaces. ViconFace is a playful demonstration application built atop of this toolkit. A cartoon face on a large display tracks a person moving around it, where it visually and verbally responds to that person's proximity, orientation and wand use.



Authors: Rob Diaz-Marino and Saul Greenberg

Affiliation: Interactions Labs, University of Calgary

Project page: http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Publications/2010-ProximityToolkit.CHI