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SigmaCollab: An Application-Driven Dataset for Physically Situated Collaboration

Human-Computer Interaction 2025-11-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

We introduce SigmaCollab, a dataset enabling research on physically situated human-AI collaboration. The dataset consists of a set of 85 sessions in which untrained participants were guided by a mixed-reality assistive AI agent in performing procedural tasks in the physical world. SigmaCollab includes a set of rich, multimodal data streams, such as the participant and system audio, egocentric camera views from the head-mounted device, depth maps, head, hand and gaze tracking information, as well as additional annotations performed post-hoc. While the dataset is relatively small in size (~ 14 hours), its application-driven and interactive nature brings to the fore novel research challenges for human-AI collaboration, and provides more realistic testing grounds for various AI models operating in this space. In future work, we plan to use the dataset to construct a set of benchmarks for physically situated collaboration in mixed-reality task assistive scenarios. SigmaCollab is available at https://github.com/microsoft/SigmaCollab.

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@article{arxiv.2511.02560,
  title  = {SigmaCollab: An Application-Driven Dataset for Physically Situated Collaboration},
  author = {Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist and Ann Paradiso and Nick Saw and Tim Schoonbeek and Maia Stiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02560},
  year   = {2025}
}
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