Paper Info
Title
From HRI to CRI: Crowd Robot Interaction—Understanding the Effect of Robots on Crowd Motion
Abstract
How does the presence of a robot affect pedestrians and crowd dynamics, and does this influence vary across robot type? In this paper, we took the first step towards answering this question by performing a crowd-robot gate-crossing experiment. The study involved 28 participants and two distinct robot representatives: A smart wheelchair and a Pepper humanoid robot. Collected data includes: video recordings; robot and participant trajectories; and participants’ responses to post-interaction questionnaires. Quantitative analysis on the trajectories suggests the robot affects crowd dynamics in terms of trajectory regularity and interaction complexity. Qualitative results indicate that pedestrians tend to be more conservative and follow “social rules” while passing a wheelchair compared to a humanoid robot. These insights can be used to design a social navigation strategy that allows more natural interaction by considering the robot effect on the crowd dynamics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s12369-021-00812-7
International Journal of Social Robotics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Crowd dynamics, Social navigation, Human–robot interaction, Smart wheelchairs
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1875-4791
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bingqing Zhang110.35
Javad Amirian210.35
Harry Eberle310.35
Julien Pettre410.35
Catherine Holloway523.75
Tom Carlson610.35