Roman Kuzyk's research while affiliated with The University of Calgary and other places
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Publications (4)
Just as human-human behavior and interactions are important to study, human-robot interactions will take more prominence in
the near future. These interactions will not only be in one direction, robots helping humans, but they will also be bidirectional
with humans helping robots. This study examined the interactions between children and robots by...
Centuries ago, the existence of life was explained by the presence of a soul (Tylor, 1871). Known as animism, this term was re-defined in the 1970s by Piaget as young children's beliefs that inanimate objects are capable of actions and have life-like qualities. With the development of robots in the 21st century, researchers have begun examining whe...
Mecanum wheels give vehicles and robots autonomous omni-directional capabilities, while regular wheels don’t. The omni-directionality that such wheels provide makes the vehicle extremely maneuverable, which could be very helpful in different indoor and outdoor applications. However, current Mecanum wheel designs can only operate on flat hard surfac...
Mecanum wheels give vehicles/robots omni-directional capabilities, while regular wheels don't. The omni-directionality that such wheels provide makes the vehicle extremely maneuverable, which could be helpful in different indoor and outdoor applications. However, current Mecanum wheels designs can only operate on flat hard surfaces, and perform ver...
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... Usually such environments can be found in factories, workshops, warehouses, hospitals, etc. Omnidirectional vehicles have been traditionally designed to operate on smooth/hard/flat surfaces. Very little effort has been dedicated for developing such vehicles to move on complex rough terrains such as rocky surfaces [3], [4]. Omnidirectional vehicles have 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) on the ground. ...
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... Closely related to our study, limited work has been done to explore children's pro-social behavior towards robots [6,7,43]. Broadly speaking, children demonstrated pro-social behavior towards the explored robot across several studies. ...
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... The method applied involved analyzing the effect of increasing the peripheral rollers and designing the new Mecanum wheel structure accordingly. In the study by [76], the authors developed two designs of Mecanum wheels to enhance the robot's performance when moving on rough terrain. The first design, called the "assembled elliptical Mecanum double wheel," is capable of overcoming obstacles up to 75% of the wheel radius. ...
... It would certainly seem that people's intuitions about robots will likely be influenced both by their cultural experience as well as just their exposure to social robots. Indeed, we know that children respond differently to robots, even in industrialized societies, based on their experiences with them [82,102]. For children who have very limited or no interaction with social robots, it is unclear how they might evaluate such robots. ...
