Noah Kraemer

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”: Human proxemic preferences for recognizing robot gestures in physical reality and virtual reality

The use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) for studying Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) offers many benefits, including decreased cost and risk as well as increased experimental control and repeatability. Previous work has shown that people reliably underestimate distances in VR; however, the effect of…