Socially aware robot navigation is gaining popularity with the increase in delivery and
assistive robots. The research is further fueled by a need for socially aware navigation skills …

As more robots are being deployed into human environments, a human-aware navigation
planner needs to handle multiple contexts that occur in indoor and outdoor environments. In …

Mobile robots must navigate efficiently, reliably, and appropriately around people when
acting in shared social environments. For robots to be accepted in such environments, we …

It is expected that in the near future robots will be increasingly involved in social roles,
however, understanding how students learn empathic skills, and how technology can …

Achieving social acceptance is one of the main goals of Social Robotic Navigation. Despite
this topic has received increasing interest in recent years, most of the research has focused …

Experimenting, testing, and debugging robot social navigation systems is a challenging task.
While simulation is generally well suited for a first level of debugging and evaluation of …

Human-aware navigation is a complex task for mobile robots, requiring an autonomous
navigation system capable of achieving efficient path planning together with socially …

With the emergence of an ultra-smart society, it is desirable to have a mobility support robot
that can act flexibly like a human without prior knowledge or trial-and-error learning. One …

This presents a framework for a novel Unified Socially-Aware Navigation (USAN)
architecture and motivates it for Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) applications. This …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) studies have found people overtrust robots in domestic
settings, even when the robot exhibits faulty behavior. Cognitive dissonance and selective …