Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions

Jered Vroon; Michiel Joosse; Manja Lohse; Jan Kolkmeier; Jaebok Kim; Khiet Truong; Gwenn Englebienne; Dirk Heylen; Vanessa Evers

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333633

Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions

Jered Vroon, Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Jan Kolkmeier, Jaebok Kim, Khiet Truong, Gwenn Englebienne, Dirk Heylen, Vanessa Evers

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When a mobile robot interacts with a group of people, it has to consider its position and orientation. We introduce a novel study aimed at generating hypotheses on suitable behavior for such social positioning, explicitly focusing on interaction with small groups of users and allowing for the temporal and social dynamics inherent in most interactions. In particular, the interactions we look at are approach, converse and retreat. In this study, groups of three participants and a telepresence robot (controlled remotely by a fourth participant) solved a task together while we collected quantitative and qualitative data, including tracking of positioning/orientation and ratings of the behaviors used. In the data we observed a variety of patterns that can be extrapolated to hypotheses using inductive reasoning. One such pattern/hypothesis is that a (telepresence) robot could pass through a group when retreating, without this affecting how comfortable that retreat is for the group members. Another is that a group will rate the position/orientation of a (telepresence) robot as more comfortable when it is aimed more at the center of that group.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Sumposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMan 2015)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	394-399
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-6703-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333633
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Event	2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015 - Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan Duration: 31 Aug 2015 → 4 Sept 2015 Conference number: 24

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Conference	2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015
Abbreviated title	RO-MAN
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kobe
Period	31/08/15 → 4/09/15

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EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/611153
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/600877
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/2007-2013

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Vroon, J, Joosse, M, Lohse, M, Kolkmeier, J, Kim, J, Truong, K , Englebienne, G , Heylen, D & Evers, V 2015, Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions. in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Sumposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMan 2015). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 394-399, 2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, 31/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333633

Dynamics of social positioning patterns in group-robot interactions. / Vroon, Jered; Joosse, Michiel; Lohse, Manja et al.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Sumposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMan 2015). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015. p. 394-399.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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