A survey of multi-agent human–robot interaction systems

A Dahiya, AM Aroyo, K Dautenhahn… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents a survey of literature in the area of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI),
specifically on systems containing more than two agents (ie, having multiple humans and/or …

Reproducibility in human-robot interaction: Furthering the science of hri

H Gunes, F Broz, CS Crawford, AR der Pütten… - Current Robotics …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To discuss the current state of reproducibility of research in
human-robot interaction (HRI), challenges specific to the field, and recommendations for …

What is your other hand doing, robot? A model of behavior for shopkeeper robot's idle hand

X Pan, M Doering, T Kanda - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In retail settings, a robot's one-handed manipulation of objects can come across as
thoughtless and impolite, thus creating a negative customer experience. To solve this …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating automatic body orientation detection for indoor location from skeleton tracking data to detect socially occupied spaces using the Kinect v2, Azure …

VAL Sosa-León, A Schwering - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Analysing the dynamics in social interactions in indoor spaces entails evaluating spatial–
temporal variables from the event, such as location and time. Additionally, social interactions …

Reciprocal consistency prediction network for multi-step human trajectory prediction

W Zhu, Y Liu, M Zhang, Y Yi - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reliable prediction of traffic participants' trajectories is challenging for automated driving.
We attempt to integrate human trajectory's temporal and spatial reciprocal consistency into …

Data-driven imitation learning for a shopkeeper robot with periodically changing product information

M Doering, D Brščić, T Kanda - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Data-driven imitation learning enables service robots to learn social interaction behaviors,
but these systems cannot adapt after training to changes in the environment, such as …

Towards formalizing hri data collection processes

Z Han, T Williams - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.08396, 2022 - arxiv.org
Within the human-robot interaction (HRI) community, many researchers have focused on the
careful design of human-subjects studies. However, other parts of the community, eg, the …

Route Planning and Operator Allocation in Robot Fleets

A Dahiya - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
In this thesis, we address various challenges related to optimal planning and task allocation
in a robot fleet supervised by remote human operators. The overarching goal is to enhance …

Learning Social Robot Behaviors for Interacting with Staff and Customers

M Doering, D Brščić, T Kanda - … the Gap (workshop). 17th Annual ACM …, 2022 - hal.science
Data-driven imitation learning has been used to train social robots to interact with human
customers in service domains. However, up till now previous works on imitation learning of …

Explainable Representations of the Social State: A Model for Social Human-Robot Interactions

DH García, Y Yu, W Sieińska, JL Part, N Gunson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a minimum set of concepts and signals needed to track the social
state during Human-Robot Interaction. We look into the problem of complex continuous …