We studied the programming and debugging processes of an autonomous mobile social
robot with a focus on the programmers. This process is time-consuming in a populated …

We are facilitating software development for mobile social robots that operatein the wild': that
is, in real daily environments such as shopping malls. One fundamental difficulty in …

Evaluation of social robot navigation inherently requires human input due to its qualitative
nature. Motivated by the need to scale human evaluation, we propose a general method for …

Our aim is to advance the reliability of autonomous social navigation. We have researched
how simulation may advance this goal via crowdsourcing. We recently proposed the …

Nowadays, off-the-shelf social robots are used more frequently by the HRI community to
research social interactions with different types of users across a range of domains such as …

Enabling socially acceptable behavior for situated agents is a major goal of recent robotics
research. Robots should not only operate safely around humans, but also abide by complex …

As social robots are increasingly entering the real world, developing a viable robot
application has become highly important. While a growing body of research has …

Social robots have varied effectiveness when interacting with humans in different interaction
contexts. A robot programmed to escort individuals to a different location, for instance, may …

There has been a recent trend to test robots and intelligent virtual agents as social
interaction partners in public domains. Commercial solutions such as Pepper or Cruz are …

The future robots are expected to work in a shared physical space with humans [1]; however,
the presence of humans leads to a dynamic environment that is challenging for mobile …