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This paper reports on a robotic assistant for ambient intelligent meeting rooms and also for human-centred environments in general. The usefulness of such an “embodied” assistant as a video conferencing tool for sites not possessing an intelligent meeting room and as a mobile extension of an “intelliroom” is discussed, along with possible scenarios. The most important benefit is probably the more natural interaction between the human and the intelligent environment through this “embodied” assistant. This paper also proposes a hybrid approach for moving around in human-centred environments.
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Nuttin, M. et al. (2003). A Robotic Assistant for Ambient Intelligent Meeting Rooms. In: Aarts, E., Collier, R.W., van Loenen, E., de Ruyter, B. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. EUSAI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39863-9_23
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