An intelligent kiosk is a public information kiosk that senses the presence of humans and communicates in a natural way. To examine issues of human-kiosk interaction, we have built and deployed two versions of intelligent kiosks. The first kiosk design combines machine vision to locate and track people in the vicinity with an animated talking head that focuses on clients and talks to them. The second kiosk design uses infrared and sonar sensors to sense clients and multiple interacting agents to communicate with the client.

Article Free Access Share on Digital smart kiosk project Authors: Andrew D. Christian Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, Cambridge, MA Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, Cambridge, MAView Profile , Brian L. Avery Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, Cambridge, MA Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, Cambridge, MAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsJanuary 1998 Pages 155–162https://doi.org/10.1145/274644.274668Published:01 January 1998Publication History 39citation1,435DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations39Total Downloads1,435Last 12 Months295Last 6 weeks58 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

A flexible three-degree-of-freedom robot is described, and its behavior is compared with a simple model of a vibrating system. The robot has three rotary joints and two flexible steel links, causing it to exhibit many complicated modes of vibration. A nondimensional analysis of the model showing how it responds to ramp commands and acceleration commands is presented, and the results are compared with those for the actual robot. Using the model, one can select input commands that minimize the vibration of the robot.>

The problems of designing a robot with joint and link flexibility are discussed. The relationship between the deflection of the robot under gravity is correlated with the fundamental frequency of vibration. Different types of link geometry are considered, evaluating the flexibility potential of different materials. Some general conclusions and guidelines for constructing a flexible robot are given. It is found that, for maximum flexibility with minimum stiffness, the best material choice for the links is titanium. Some aluminium alloys may be inexpensive alternatives, but the fatigue characteristics of aluminium are unacceptable in most applications. Coiled springs give very little stiffness in comparison to their strength, but their weight makes them unusable in all but planar applications.>