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Time-Aware Assistive Navigation
Masaki Kuribayashi, Zhongkai Shangguan, Eshed Ohn-Bar
Can interactive vision-and-language agents learn not just what to say but also \textbf{\textit{when}} to say it? Current language models rarely plan over whether and when to realiz…
ACME: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Embodiment Social-Navigation Dataset
Shashank Rao Marpally, Allan Wang, Atharva Ghotavadekar +35
Understanding how robots and humans move in shared spaces is essential for designing effective social robot navigation policies and predicting human behavior. However, existing dat…
Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People
Yaxin Hu, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang +5
Group interactions are essential to social functioning, yet effective engagement relies on the ability to recognize and interpret visual cues, making such engagement a significant…
How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People
Rayna Hata, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang +2
Autonomy and independent navigation are vital to daily life but remain challenging for individuals with blindness. Robotic systems can enhance mobility and confidence by providing…
WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People
Masaki Kuribayashi, Kohei Uehara, Allan Wang +2
Blind people have limited opportunities to explore an environment based on their interests. While existing navigation systems could provide them with surrounding information while…
Understanding and Supporting Formal Email Exchange by Answering AI-Generated Questions
Yusuke Miura, Chi-Lan Yang, Masaki Kuribayashi +3
Replying to formal emails is time-consuming and cognitively demanding, as it requires crafting polite phrasing and providing an adequate response to the sender's demands. Although…
Text to Blind Motion
Hee Jae Kim, Kathakoli Sengupta, Masaki Kuribayashi +2
People who are blind perceive the world differently than those who are sighted, which can result in distinct motion characteristics. For instance, when crossing at an intersection,…
Memory-Maze: Scenario Driven Visual Language Navigation Benchmark for Guiding Blind People
Masaki Kuribayashi, Kohei Uehara, Allan Wang +3
Visual Language Navigation (VLN) powered robots have the potential to guide blind people by understanding route instructions provided by sighted passersby. This capability allows r…