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Initial Design, Implementation and Technical Evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner for a Social Robot

  • Kheng Lee Koay
  • Dag Syrdal
  • Richard Bormann
  • Joe Saunders
  • Michael L. Walters
  • Kerstin Dautenhahn
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10652)

Abstract

Home Companion Robots need to be able to support users in their daily living activities and to be socially adaptive. They should take account of users’ individual preferences, environments and social situations in order to behave in a socially acceptable manner and to gain acceptance into the household. They will need to be context-aware, taking account of any relevant contextual information and improve on delivering services by adapting to users’ requirements. We present the design, implementation and technical evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner which aims to improve a robots’ social behaviour by adapting its distances and orientation to the user in terms of interpersonal space, based on contextual information regarding the task, user and the robot.

Keywords

Human-Robot Interaction Proxemics Social robots Robotic home companions Context-aware systems 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kheng Lee Koay
    • 1
  • Dag Syrdal
    • 1
  • Richard Bormann
    • 2
  • Joe Saunders
    • 1
  • Michael L. Walters
    • 1
  • Kerstin Dautenhahn
    • 1
  1. 1.University of HertfordshireHatfieldUK
  2. 2.Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPAStuttgartGermany

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