Reviews for Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics & Autonomous Agents)

1. Good overview of Sociable Robotics

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2009

   This book as been the start point for my PhD in Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Kismet is a fundamental milestone in the expanding research sphere of HRI, gathering and integrating relevant research from a number of different research fields to present an end result that provides a solid reference for new and developing research.
   
   Breazeal accumulates all the work and presents it in a detailed manner clearly highlighting the underlying connection between HRI and developmental psychology and social learning, areas that are gaining interest in the social and cognitive robotics fields.
   
   A good detailed book of some eye opening research though it is a tad specific to informed people: i.e. if you are not informed in aspects of Robotics then it is likely that you will not follow everything in this book strait away.

2. Details on Kismet

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2002

   The book is well structured, and includes many photos and diagrams. I found it useful because I work exactly on the same topic. However, most of its content can be found elsewhere (in published articles). The accompanying CD-ROM includes very interesting videos, although I think they can also be found elsewhere. In summay, I definitely recommend this book, but only if you are really interested in the topic and/or in Kismet, and you want to know as many details as you can.