[HTML][HTML] Self-supervised prediction of the intention to interact with a service robot

G Abbate, A Giusti, V Schmuck, O Celiktutan… - Robotics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A service robot can provide a smoother interaction experience if it has the ability to
proactively detect whether a nearby user intends to interact, in order to adapt its behavior eg …

Predicting the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot: the Role of Gaze Cues

S Arreghini, G Abbate, A Giusti, A Paolillo - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
For a service robot, it is crucial to perceive as early as possible that an approaching person
intends to interact: in this case, it can proactively enact friendly behaviors that lead to an …

Towards Explainable Proactive Robot Interactions for Groups of People in Unstructured Environments

T Love, A Andriella, G Alenyà - Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
For social robots to be able to operate in unstructured public spaces, they need to be able to
gauge complex factors such as human-robot engagement and inter-person social groups …