Ross Mead — accepted AI-conference papers

2017

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

Sahba El-Shawa, Noah Kraemer, Sara Sheikholeslami, Ross Mead, Elizabeth A. Croft

IROS 2017poster

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…

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2015

Proxemics and performance: Subjective human evaluations of autonomous sociable robot distance and social signal understanding

Ross Mead, Maja J Matarić

IROS 2015poster

An objective of an autonomous sociable robot is to meet the needs and preferences of a human user. However, this can sometimes be at the expense of the robot's own ability to understand social signals produced by the user. In particular, human preferences of distance (proxemics) to the robot can hav…

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