Product Description : Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 14) Advances in HumanRobot Interaction provides a unique collection of recent research in humanrobot interaction It covers the basic important research areas ranging from multimodal interfaces interpretation interaction learning or motion coordination to topics such as physical interaction systems and architectures The book addresses key issues of humanrobot interaction concerned with perception modelling control planning and cognition covering a wide spectrum of applications This includes interaction and communication with robots in manufacturing environments and the collaboration and coexistence with assistive robots in domestic environments Among the presented examples are a robotic bartender a new programming paradigm for a cleaning robot or an approach to interactive teaching of a robot assistant in manufacturing environment This carefully edited book reports on contributions from leading German academic institutions and industrial companies brought together within MORPHA a 4 year project on interaction and communication between humans and anthropomorphic robot assistants ( it is an used product)