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For a robot to be called socially intelligent, it must be able to infer users internal states from their current behaviour, predict the users future behaviour, and if required, respond appropriately. In this work, we investigate how robots…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tongfei Bian , Mathieu Chollet , Tanaya Guha

Dynamic hand gestures play a pivotal role in assistive human-robot interaction (HRI), facilitating intuitive, non-verbal communication, particularly for individuals with mobility constraints or those operating robots remotely. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eran Bamani Beeri , Eden Nissinman , Avishai Sintov

While social robots are developed to provide assistance to users through social interactions, their behaviors are dominantly pre-programmed and remote-controlled. Despite the numerous robot control architectures being developed, very few…

The predictive functions that permit humans to infer their body state by sensorimotor integration are critical to perform safe interaction in complex environments. These functions are adaptive and robust to non-linear actuators and noisy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Pablo Lanillos , Gordon Cheng

Gesture interaction is a natural way of communicating with a robot as an alternative to speech. Gesture recognition methods leverage optical flow in order to understand human motion. However, while accurate optical flow estimation (i.e.,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jen-Yen Chang , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Tatsuya Harada

In physical human-robot interaction, force feedback has been the most common sensing modality to convey the human intention to the robot. It is widely used in admittance control to allow the human to direct the robot. However, it cannot be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Gokhan Solak , Gustavo J. G. Lahr , Idil Ozdamar , Arash Ajoudani

Humanoid robots are well suited for human habitats due to their morphological similarity, but developing controllers for them is a challenging task that involves multiple sub-problems, such as control, planning and perception. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha

As human-robot collaboration is becoming more widespread, there is a need for a more natural way of communicating with the robot. This includes combining data from several modalities together with the context of the situation and background…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Petr Vanc , Radoslav Skoviera , Karla Stepanova

We humans are biased - and our robotic creations are biased, too. Bias is a natural phenomenon that drives our perceptions and behavior, including when it comes to socially expressive robots that have humanlike features. Recognizing that we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Katie Seaborn

We propose a novel learned deep prior of body motion for 3D hand shape synthesis and estimation in the domain of conversational gestures. Our model builds upon the insight that body motion and hand gestures are strongly correlated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Evonne Ng , Shiry Ginosar , Trevor Darrell , Hanbyul Joo

In recent years, autonomous agents have surged in real-world environments such as our homes, offices, and public spaces. However, natural human-robot interaction remains a key challenge. In this paper, we introduce an approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

User's intentions may be expressed through spontaneous gesturing, which have been seen only a few times or never before. Recognizing such gestures involves one shot gesture learning. While most research has focused on the recognition of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Maria Cabrera , Richard Voyles , Juan Wachs

Humans can steadily and gently grasp unfamiliar objects based on tactile perception. Robots still face challenges in achieving similar performance due to the difficulty of learning accurate grasp-force predictions and force control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mingxuan Li , Lunwei Zhang , Tiemin Li , Yao Jiang

The recent advancement in technology breaks the barriers to communication between users and computers. The communication between humans and computers includes emotion and gesture recognition. Emotions can be recognized on the face of humans…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Heena , Sandeep Ranjan

We present a new research task and a dataset to understand human social interactions via computational methods, to ultimately endow machines with the ability to encode and decode a broad channel of social signals humans use. This research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hanbyul Joo , Tomas Simon , Mina Cikara , Yaser Sheikh

Most of industrial robots are still programmed using the typical teaching process, through the use of the robot teach pendant. In this paper is proposed an accelerometer-based system to control an industrial robot using two low-cost and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Pedro Neto , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

This study proposes different approaches for static and dynamic gesture analysis and imitation with the social robot Nao

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Amir Aly

Integrating robots into populated environments is a complex challenge that requires an understanding of human social dynamics. In this work, we propose to model social motion forecasting in a shared human-robot representation space, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Esteve Valls Mascaro , Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

Robotic vision for human-robot interaction and collaboration is a critical process for robots to collect and interpret detailed information related to human actions, goals, and preferences, enabling robots to provide more useful services to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Nicole Robinson , Brendan Tidd , Dylan Campbell , Dana Kulić , Peter Corke

Secure communication is essential in covert and safety-critical settings where verbal interactions may expose user intent or operational context. Wearable gesture-based communication enables low-effort, nonverbal interaction, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Sayed Erfan Arefin