5 accepted papers
Spatial formations can give many social cues, such as illustrating a group of people are having a conversation (social affiliation), or that they are trying to move swiftly through a space (functional goal). This work explored how people perceive varied robots formations while navigating through a s…
This paper evaluates a robot that distributed hand-sanitizer over an eight month period (October 2020-June 2021) in public places on the Oregon State University campus. During COVID times, many robots have been deployed in public places as social distancing enforcers, food delivery robots, UV-sanita…
This paper consists of a failure analysis of two robot performance productions. Both productions included three-week rehearsal periods, and culminated in live performances including both robots and humans. To develop these productions, a theater artist collaborated with a robotics lab to develop, (1…
Expressive motion can situate a robot's attitude in its task motions, illustrating real-time reactions. Inspired by acting movement training, we construct path shape features that layer expression into a mobile robot's motion traversal. Our video-study results show that simple variations of path sha…
Functional robots are an increasing presence in shared human-machine environments. Humans efficiently parse motion expressions, gaining an immediate impression of an agent's current action and state. Past work has shown that motion can effectively reveal a robot's current task objective to bystander