Social perception in HRI

In scenarios where robots are deployed alongside humans, user's perception and detection of their social signals is crucial to enable social interactions and collaborative tasks. On the other side, studying the user perception of robots allows designing better systems that aligns with human values and needs.

Projects

Lindsey: the Tour Guide Robot, Funded by Lincolnshire County Council, Partners: University of Lincoln (PI: Prof Marc Hanheide). link: https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/wp/projects/lindsey-a-robot-tour-guide/
Robot Highways, Funded by: Innovate UK. Partners: Saga Robotics, University of Lincoln (PI: Prof Marc Hanheide), Berry Gardens Growers Ltd, BT, Clock House Farm, University of Reading, and Manufacturing Technology Centre. Link: https://www.robothighways.co.uk/
Trustworthy Accessible Robots for Inclusive Cultural experienceS (TARICS), Funded by UKRI TAS Hub, Partners: University of Lincoln (PI: Maria Galvez Trigo), University of Nottingham, Lincolnshire County Council, NICER Group - Nottingham International Consortium for Educational Research. Link: https://tas.ac.uk/research-projects-2022-23/tarics/
Guiding Robot Guides: Developing Guidelines for Robotic Technologies in Cultural Spaces, Funded by Lincoln Policy Hub, Partners: University of Lincoln (PI: Francesco Del Duchetto), Lincolnshire County Council (Lincoln Museum), Arts Council England. Policy blog post: https://policyhub.lincoln.ac.uk/guiding-robot-guides/

References

2021

RAL

Navigate-and-seek: a robotics framework for people localization in agricultural environments

Riccardo Polvara, Francesco Del Duchetto, Gerhard Neumann, and 1 more author

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021

Bib Code

@article{polvara2021navigate,
  title = {Navigate-and-seek: a robotics framework for people localization in agricultural environments},
  author = {Polvara, Riccardo and Del Duchetto, Francesco and Neumann, Gerhard and Hanheide, Marc},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {6},
  number = {4},
  pages = {6577--6584},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

2020

Automatic Assessment and Learning of Robot Social Abilities

Francesco Del Duchetto, Paul Baxter, and Marc Hanheide

In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{del2020automatic,
  title = {Automatic Assessment and Learning of Robot Social Abilities},
  author = {Del Duchetto, Francesco and Baxter, Paul and Hanheide, Marc},
  booktitle = {Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  pages = {561--563},
  year = {2020},
}

FRobAI

Are You Still With Me? Continuous Engagement Assessment From a Robot’s Point of View

Francesco Del Duchetto, Paul Baxter, and Marc Hanheide

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020

Bib Code

@article{del2020you,
  title = {Are You Still With Me? Continuous Engagement Assessment From a Robot's Point of View},
  author = {Del Duchetto, Francesco and Baxter, Paul and Hanheide, Marc},
  journal = {Frontiers in Robotics and AI},
  volume = {7},
  number = {116},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},
}