Detection of groups of interacting people is a very interesting and useful task in many
modern technologies, with application fields spanning from video-surveillance to social …

We conducted a 2x2 between-subjects experiment to examine the effects of two orientation
and two gaze behaviors during group conversations for a mobile, low degree-of-freedom …

Robots must develop the ability to socially navigate in uncontrolled urban environments to
be able to be included in our daily lives. This paper presents a new robot navigation …

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 …

In Human–Robot Interaction, researchers typically utilize in-person studies to collect
subjective perceptions of a robot. In addition, videos of interactions and interactive …

A key challenge in designing humanoid robots is producing natural and human-like
behaviour. This study addressed this challenge by develo** an instructive interface to …

We explore online reinforcement learning techniques to find good policies to control the
orientation of a mobile robot during social group conversations. In this scenario, we assume …

This paper presents an adaptive side-by-side human-robot companion approach for
navigation in urban dynamic environments, based on the anticipative kinodynamic planning …

The purpose of this study is to develop a mobile museum guide (MG) robot capable of
creating and controlling spatial formations with visitors in different situations. Although much …

In dialogue, speakers continuously adapt their speech to accommodate the listener, based
on the feedback they receive. In this paper, we explore the modelling of such behaviours in …