Robotic agents designed to assist people across a variety of social and service settings are
becoming increasingly prevalent across the world. Here we synthesise two decades of …

Social service robots are becoming increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives, including in
healthcare, education and customer service settings. It is known that different cultures and …

Ensuring human safety is one of the most important considerations within the field of human-
robot interaction (HRI). This does not simply involve preventing collisions between humans …

We present an ample description of a socially compliant mobile robotic platform, which is
developed in the EU-funded project SPENCER. The purpose of this robot is to assist, inform …

Culture, intended as the set of beliefs, values, ideas, language, norms and customs which
compose a person's life, is an essential element to know by any robot for personal …

We propose a unified framework for approaching pose prediction, and socially aware robot
navigation, which enables a mobile service robot to safely and socially approach a dynamic …

Pedestrians will increasingly have to share their space with autonomous vehicles (AVs), at
pedestrian crossings, and in urban shared spaces where segregation between pedestrians …

Virtual Reality (VR) can greatly benefit Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) as a tool to effectively
iterate across robot designs. However, possible system limitations of VR could influence the …

Engagement is the process by which participants establish, maintain, and end their
perceived connection. Automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to …

Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely
investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise …