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What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey
Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser Lashgarian Azad +1
It has been suggested that autonomous vehicles can improve efficiency and safety of the transportation systems. While research in this area often focuses on autonomous vehicles whi…
Characterizing Structured versus Unstructured Environments based on Pedestrians' and Vehicles' Motion Trajectories
Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser Lashgarian Azad +1
Trajectory behaviours of pedestrians and vehicles operating close to each other can be different in unstructured compared to structured environments. These differences in the motio…
Uncertainty-Aware DRL for Autonomous Vehicle Crowd Navigation in Shared Space
Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn +1
Safe, socially compliant, and efficient navigation of low-speed autonomous vehicles (AVs) in pedestrian-rich environments necessitates considering pedestrians' future positions and…
Polar Collision Grids: Effective Interaction Modelling for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Shared Space Using Collision Checks
Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn +1
Predicting pedestrians' trajectories is a crucial capability for autonomous vehicles' safe navigation, especially in spaces shared with pedestrians. Pedestrian motion in shared spa…
Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Pedestrian-Vehicle Mixed Environments: A Systematic Review
Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn +1
Planning an autonomous vehicle's (AV) path in a space shared with pedestrians requires reasoning about pedestrians' future trajectories. A practical pedestrian trajectory predictio…
Using Affect as a Communication Modality to Improve Human-Robot Communication in Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue Scenarios
Sami Alperen Akgun, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley +1
Emotions can provide a natural communication modality to complement the existing multi-modal capabilities of social robots, such as text and speech, in many domains. We conducted t…
Social Companion Robots to Reduce Isolation: A Perception Change Due to COVID-19
Moojan Ghafurian, Colin Ellard, Kerstin Dautenhahn
Social isolation is one of the negative consequences of a pandemic like COVID-19. Social isolation and loneliness are not only experienced by older adults, but also by younger peop…
Improving Humanness of Virtual Agents and Users' Cooperation through Emotions
Moojan Ghafurian, Neil Budnarain, Jesse Hoey
In this paper, we analyze the performance of an agent developed according to a well-accepted appraisal theory of human emotion with respect to how it modulates play in the context…