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Main Authors: Bilen, Baris, Kivrak, Hasan, Uluer, Pinar, Kose, Hatice
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17663
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author Bilen, Baris
Kivrak, Hasan
Uluer, Pinar
Kose, Hatice
author_facet Bilen, Baris
Kivrak, Hasan
Uluer, Pinar
Kose, Hatice
contents The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the integration of emotions into the social navigation framework to analyse its effect on both navigation and human physiological safety and comfort. The proposed framework uses leg detection to find the whereabouts of people and computes adaptive proxemic zones based on their emotional state. We designed several case studies in a simulated environment and examined 3 different emotions; positive (happy), neutral and negative (angry). A survey study was conducted with 70 participants to explore their impressions about the navigation of the robot and compare the human safety and comfort measurements results. Both survey and simulation results showed that integrating emotions into proxemic zones has a significant effect on the physical safety of a human. The results revealed that when a person is angry, the robot is expected to navigate further than the standard distance to support his/her physiological comfort and safety. The results also showed that reducing the navigation distance is not preferred when a person is happy.
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spellingShingle Social Robot Navigation with Adaptive Proxemics Based on Emotions
Bilen, Baris
Kivrak, Hasan
Uluer, Pinar
Kose, Hatice
Robotics
The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the integration of emotions into the social navigation framework to analyse its effect on both navigation and human physiological safety and comfort. The proposed framework uses leg detection to find the whereabouts of people and computes adaptive proxemic zones based on their emotional state. We designed several case studies in a simulated environment and examined 3 different emotions; positive (happy), neutral and negative (angry). A survey study was conducted with 70 participants to explore their impressions about the navigation of the robot and compare the human safety and comfort measurements results. Both survey and simulation results showed that integrating emotions into proxemic zones has a significant effect on the physical safety of a human. The results revealed that when a person is angry, the robot is expected to navigate further than the standard distance to support his/her physiological comfort and safety. The results also showed that reducing the navigation distance is not preferred when a person is happy.
title Social Robot Navigation with Adaptive Proxemics Based on Emotions
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17663