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Simone Arreghini

2 accepted papers

2024

A Service Robot in the Wild: Analysis of Users Intentions, Robot Behaviors, and Their Impact on the Interaction

IROS 2024poster

We consider a service robot that offers chocolate treats to people passing in its proximity: it has the capability of predicting in advance a person’s intention to interact, and to actuate an "offering" gesture, subtly extending the tray of chocolates towards a given target. We run the system for mo…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2024

Predicting the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot: the Role of Gaze Cues

ICRA 2024poster

For a service robot, it is crucial to perceive as early as possible that an approaching person intends to interact: in this case, it can proactively enact friendly behaviors that lead to an improved user experience. We solve this perception task with a sequence-to-sequence classifier of a potential…

Cited by 8SourceScholar