@INPROCEEDINGS{Dragone-IUI2006,
 author = {Mauro Dragone and Thomas Holz and Gregory M.P. O'Hare},
 title = {Mixing robotic realities},
 booktitle = {IUI '06: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces},
 year = {2006},
 isbn = {1-59593-287-9},
 pages = {261--263},
 location = {Sydney, Australia},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1111449.1111504},
 publisher = {ACM Press},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
  abstract = {This paper contests that Mixed Reality (MR) offers a potential solution in achieving transferability between Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Virtual characters (possibly of a robotic genre) can offer highly expressive interfaces that are as convincing as a human, are comparably cheap and can be easily adapted and personalized. We introduce the notion of a mixed reality agent, i.e. an agent consisting of a physical robotic body and a virtual avatar displayed upon it. We realized an augmented reality interface with a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) in order to interact with such systems and conducted a pilot study to demonstrate the usefulness of mixed reality agents in human-robot collaborative tasks.},
  keywords = {human-robot interaction, autonomous agents, intelligent user interface, augmented reality, mixed reality agents},
  pdf = {http://sosaa.ucd.ie/publications/Dragone-IUI2006.pdf},
 }