Incorporating Gaze into Social Navigation
This addresses social navigation for robots and pedestrians, but appears incremental as it builds on existing trajectory-based approaches by adding gaze.
The paper tackled the problem of social navigation by integrating gaze cues to signal robot intentions and interpret pedestrian intentions, conducting a series of lab experiments to investigate this role.
Most current approaches to social navigation focus on the trajectory and position of participants in the interaction. Our current work on the topic focuses on integrating gaze into social navigation, both to cue nearby pedestrians as to the intended trajectory of the robot and to enable the robot to read the intentions of nearby pedestrians. This paper documents a series of experiments in our laboratory investigating the role of gaze in social navigation.