The 1st Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction
(PubRob 2013)
Robots in public spaces: towards multi-party, short-term,
dynamic human-robot interaction
Held as part of the
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013)
Bristol, United Kingdom
27 October 2013
Workshop overview
The development of robots capable of interacting with humans has made
tremendous progress in the last decade, leading to an expectation that in
the near future, robots will be increasingly deployed in public spaces, for
example as receptionists, shop assistants, waiters, or bartenders. In these
scenarios, robots must necessarily deal with situations that require
socially appropriate human-robot interactions of a specific nature:
interactions that are short and dynamic, and where the robot has to be able
to deal with multiple persons at once. In order to do so, robots typically
require specific skills, including robust video and audio processing, fast
reasoning and decision making mechanisms, and natural and safe output path
planning algorithms. As a result, research on public space robots is often
fundamentally different from other work in social robotics and HRI that
focuses on long-term, robot companions who interact with humans in
one-on-one interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers
from diverse disciplines, in order to explore this research area from
different perspectives.
Organisers
This workshop was organised in the context of the
JAMES project
(Grant no. 270435, 2011-2014), funded by the
European Commission
through the
7th Framework Programme.