This paper provides the results of various trial experiments in a hotel environment carried
out using Sacarino, an interactive bellboy robot. We analysed which aspects of the robot …

Opening encounters are an integral element of everyday social interaction, and are
essential for forming and maintaining social relationships between people. We present an …

As social agents, robots designed for human interaction must adhere to human social
norms. How can we enable designers, engineers, and roboticists to design robot behaviors …

This article presents a study using social robots in a hotel public space. The objective of this
study is to investigate people's response to robot's different speech. We used humanoid …

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 …

In the everyday world, much of what we do as social beings is dictated by how we perceive
and manage our interpersonal space. This is called proxemics. At its simplest, people …

The very first moments of co-presence, during which a robot appears to a participant for the
first time, are often “off-the-record” in the data collected from human-robot experiments …

In this work, we consider the problem of sensing environmental influence on the recognition
of human intention in human robot interaction (HRI). We propose a novel framework to …

In the past, human proxemics research has poorly predicted human robot interaction
distances. This paper presents three studies on drone gestures to acknowledge human …

To better interact with users, a social robot should understand the users' behavior, infer the
intention, and respond appropriately. Machine learning is one way of implementing robot …