User studies are carried out (here with children and adults) to
collect elements for Human-Robot Interaction
(Pictures © UH)
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 Partners involved
 RA leader : UH
partners involved :
UH, KTH, LAAS, UvA, UniKarl
RA objectives
Robots should acquire appropriate ways of approaching and maintaining spatial distances to people, in order to respect their personal and social spaces. Ultimately, this will lead to robots that are able to learn, through interaction, the personal spaces of people around them, adapting to individual preferences, as well as differences that can be found in particular user groups. In order to engage in social interactions, the Robot Companion needs to behave in a socially acceptable manner that is comfortable for human subjects while at the same time carrying out a useful task as identified in the Cogniron Key Experiments. Behaviour and interaction styles studied in this Research Activity include verbal as well as non-verbal behaviour.
This research activity will in particular focus on the robot:
observing a correct attitude towards humans, especially with respect to interaction distances and personal spaces
engaging in social interactions. This comprises the detection of humans, drawing attention and noticing humans willing and intending to interact.
Work conducted in RA3 is related to Key Experiment 1 ('The Robot Home Tour') and Key Experiment 2 ('The Curious Robot') and also to the other Research Activities.
Related project publications
Below are only listed some of the RA3-related publications, please see the Publications page for more.
K L Koay, M L. Walters, K Dautenhahn (2005) Methodological Issues using a Comfort Level Device in Human-Robot Interactions. Proc. IEEE Ro-man.
C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, J. Kubacki, M. Haegele, C. Parlitz, R. Alami (2005), A methodological approach relating the classification of gesture to identification of human intent in the context of human-robot interaction. Proc. IEEE Ro-man 05.
K Dautenhahn, S Woods, C Kaouri, M Walters, K L Koay, I Werry (2005), What is a Robot Companion - Friend, Assistant or Butler?, Proc. IEEE IROS 2005.
C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, J. Kubacki, M. Haegele, C. Parlitz (2005) A methodological approach relating the classification of gesture to identification of human intent in the context of human-robot interaction. Proc. IEEE Ro-man 05.
R te Boekhorst, M Walters, K L Koay, K Dautenhahn, C Nehaniv (2005) A Study of a Single Robot Interacting with Groups of Children in a Rotation Game Scenario, Proc. IEEE CIRA 2005.
S Woods, K Dautenhahn, C Kaouri (2005) Is Someone Watching Me? Consideration of Social Facilitation Effects in Human-Robot Interaction Experiments. Proc. IEEE CIRA 2005.
M. L. Walters, S. Woods, K. L. Koay, K. Dautenhahn, Practical and methodological challenges in designing and conducting human-robot interaction studies , in Proc. AISB'05 Symposium Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction.
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