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# IHRCMICA-2009
Improving Human-Robot Communication with Mixed-Initiative and Context-Awareness

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Improving Human-Robot Communication with Mixed-Initiative and Context-Awareness co-located with Ro-Man 2009

### Toyama, Japan, September 28, 2009.

Edited by

### Dominik Ertl *
Anders Green **
Helge Hüttenrauch **
Frederic Lerasle ***

* Vienna University of Technology , Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna, Austria
** KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science, Stockholm, Sweden
*** LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

## Table of Contents

- Preface
- Understanding Spatial Concepts by Exploiting Interaction Patterns Elin A. Topp
- Measuring Gaze Orientation for Human-Robot Interaction R. Brochard, Brice Burger, Ariane Herbulot, Frederic Lerasle
- Can the Modeling of Pedestrian Movements Improve Robot Behaviors? Michael Göller, Malco Blümel, Thilo Kerscher, J. Marius Zöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann
- With a New Helper Comes New Tasks Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Robot-Assisted Shopping Anders Green, Helge Hüttenrauch, Cristian Bogdan, Kerstin Severinson Eklundh
- Mixed-Initiative in Interactive Robotic Learning Julia Peltason, Ingo Lütkebohle, Britta Wrede, Marc Hanheide
- How to interface a human operator and a Motion Planning Algorithm David Flavigne, Michel Taix
- Decoupling of Modality Integration and Interaction Design for Multimodal Human-Robot Interfaces Mathieu Vallee, Dominik Ertl
- Towards a Framework for Design and Evaluation of Mixed Initiative Systems: Considering Movement as a Modality Cristian Bogdan, Michael Göller

21-Jan-2011: submitted by Dominik Ertl
24-Jan-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org
26-Jan-2011: updated editor list to be identical to organizer list