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Improving Fluidity Through Action: A Proposal for a Virtual Reality Platform for Improving Real-World HRI

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Achieving truly fluid interaction with robots with speech interfaces remains a hard problem. Despite technical advances in sensors, processors and actuators, the experience of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) remains laboured and frustrating. Some of the barriers to this stem from a lack of a suitable development platform for HRI to improve the interaction, particularly for mobile manipulator robots. In this paper we briefly overview some existing systems and propose a high-fidelity Virtual Reality (VR) HRI simulation environment with Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) cabability applicable to multiple robots including mobile manipulators and social robots.

Source: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

DOI: 10.1145/3687272.3690881

Authors: Carlos Valter Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Förster, Patrick Holthaus, Yongjun Zheng

Institutions: Swansea University, University of Hertfordshire

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Universitas Brawijaya, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Awards: G1508929889, Fluidity in simulated human-robot interaction with speech interfaces, G4256990640