This paper describes an exploratory study on group interaction with a robot guide in an open largescale busy environment. For an entire week, a humanoid robot was deployed in the popular Cosmocaixa Science Museum in Barcelona and guided hundreds of people through the museum facilities. The main goal of this experience is to study in the wild the episodes of the robot guiding visitors to a requested destination focusing on the group behavior during displacement. The walking behaviorfollow-me and the face-to-face communication in a populated environment are analyzed in terms of guide–visitors interaction, grouping patterns and spatial formations. Results from observational data show that the space con¯gurations spontaneously formed by the robot guide and visitors walking together did not always meet the robot communicative and navigational requirements for successful guidance. Therefore, additional verbal and nonverbal rompts must be considered to regulate e®ectively the walking ogether and follow-me behaviors. Finally, we discuss lessons learned and recommendations for robot's spatial behavior in dense crowded scenarios. ; Postprint (author's final draft)


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Human-Humanoid Robot Interaction through Virtual Reality Interfaces

    Wonsick, Murphy / Padir, Taskin | IEEE | 2021


    HUMANOID ROBOT

    FLEURY PAUL GLONINGER / RESH BRADLEY AARON / YOUNG JOSEPH MICHAEL et al. | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access

    HUMANOID ROBOT

    AMINO AZUSA / ICHINOSE RYOKO / NAKAMURA RYOSUKE et al. | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access

    Humanoid robot

    AMINO AZUSA / ICHINOSE RYOKO / NAKAMURA RYOSUKE et al. | European Patent Office | 2021

    Free access

    Humanoid robot

    DING YIBO / MA XUEBAO / YUE XIAOKUI et al. | European Patent Office | 2023

    Free access