As mobile robots are increasingly introduced into our daily lives, it grows ever more
imperative that these robots navigate with and among people in a safe and socially …

Data-driven approaches for modeling human skeletal motion have found various
applications in interactive media and social robotics. Challenges remain in these fields for …

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 …

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 …

To facilitate HRI's transition from dyadic to group interaction, new methods are needed for
robots to sense and understand team behavior. We introduce the Robot-Centric Group …

The emergency department (ED) is a safety-critical environment in which healthcare workers
(HCWs) are overburdened, overworked, and have limited resources, especially during the …

Robotic motion has been studied for many purposes, such as effective fast movements,
communicative gestures, and obstacle avoidance. Through this study, we are able to …

In this paper, we explored how a mobile robot should join an existing multimodal interaction
between a person and a stationary robot. We developed three different strategies (Circular …

We study two approaches for predicting an appropriate pose for a robot to take part in group
formations typical of social human conversations subject to the physical layout of the …

This paper introduces the Pepper Python Unity Toolkit (PePUT), a toolkit for controlling and
using the social robot Pepper via Unity and Python. As toolkit components, we present …