We present SEAN 2.0, an open-source system designed to advance social navigation via
the training and benchmarking of navigation policies in varied social contexts. A key …

The current technology epoch—sometimes called the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)—
involves the innovative application of rapidly advancing digital technologies such as artificial …

Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by
introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and …

Society is starting to come up with exciting applications for social robots like butlers,
coaches, and waiters. However, these robots face a challenging task: to meet people during …

Human trajectory prediction is a crucial yet challenging problem, which is of fundamental
importance to robotics and autonomous driving vehicles. The core challenge lies in …

Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many
previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it …

The ability of a robot to detect and join groups of people is of increasing importance in social
contexts, and for the collaboration between teams of humans and robots. In this paper, we …

Group interactions are a natural part of our daily life, and as robots become more integrated
into society, they must be able to socially interact with multiple people at the same time …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

The analysis and simulation of the interactions that occur in group situations is important
when humans and artificial agents, physical or virtual, must coordinate when inhabiting …