Increasing perceived safety in motion planning for human-drone interaction

S Van Waveren, R Rudling, I Leite, P Jensfelt… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Safety is crucial for autonomous drones to operate close to humans. Besides avoiding
unwanted or harmful contact, people should also perceive the drone as safe. Existing safe …

The virtualization of human–robot interactions: A user-centric workload assessment

F Nenna, V Orso, D Zanardi, L Gamberini - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
Interest in the virtualization of human–robot interactions is increasing, yet the impact that
collaborating with either virtual or physical robots has on the human operator's mental state …

Comparing human-robot proxemics between virtual reality and the real world

R Li, M van Almkerk, S van Waveren… - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual Reality (VR) can greatly benefit Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) as a tool to effectively
iterate across robot designs. However, possible system limitations of VR could influence the …

Give me space: Sex, attractiveness, and mind perception as potential contributors to different comfort distances for humans and robots

F Pazhoohi, S Gojamgunde, A Kingstone - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous research in human-robot interactions has shown that comfort distance from robots
is influenced by factors such as a robot's likability, gaze behavior, and attractiveness …

Mixed reality deictic gesture for multi-modal robot communication

T Williams, M Bussing, S Cabrol… - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In previous work, researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that robots' use of deictic
gestures enables effective and natural human-robot interaction. However, new technologies …

Appgan: Generative adversarial networks for generating robot approach behaviors into small groups of people

F Yang, C Peters - 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots that navigate to approach free-standing conversational groups should do so in a
safe and socially acceptable manner. This is challenging since it not only requires the robot …

Using augmented reality to better study human-robot interaction

T Williams, L Hirshfield, N Tran, T Grant… - … 2020, Held as Part of the …, 2020 - Springer
In the field of Human-Robot Interaction, researchers often techniques such as the Wizard-of-
Oz paradigms in order to better study narrow scientific questions while carefully controlling …

App-LSTM: Data-driven generation of socially acceptable trajectories for approaching small groups of agents

F Yang, C Peters - Proceedings of the 7th international conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
While many works involving human-agent interactions have focused on individuals or
crowds, modelling interactions on the group scale has not been considered in depth …

[PDF][PDF] The reality-virtuality interaction cube

T Williams, D Szafir, T Chakraborti - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2019 - researchgate.net
There has recently been an explosion of work in the humanrobot interaction (HRI)
community on the use of mixed, augmented, and virtual reality. In this paper, we present a …

Impact of trajectory generation methods on viewer perception of robot approaching group behaviors

F Yang, W Yin, M Björkman… - 2020 29th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots that approach free-standing conversational groups to join them should
behave in a safe and socially-acceptable way. Existing trajectory generation methods focus …