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most citedEncouraging Bystander Assistance for Urban Robots: Introducing Playful Robot Help-Seeking as a Strategy

14 citations · 41 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.HC2026

Animated Public Furniture as an Interaction Mediator: Engaging Passersby In-the-Wild with Robotic Benches

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Xin Lu +4

Urban HCI investigates how digital technologies shape human behaviour within the social, spatial, temporal dynamics of public space. Meanwhile, robotic furniture research demonstra…

cs.HC2026

Fostering Design-Policy Collaboration through Contestation: An Adversarial Futuring Method

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Tram Thi Minh Tran +1

Emerging technologies introduce sociotechnical tensions that call for closer collaboration between technology design and policy. In this work, we introduce Design-Policy Adversaria…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

The UnScripted Trip: Fostering Policy Discussion on Future Human-Vehicle Collaboration in Autonomous Driving Through Design-Oriented Methods

Xinyan Yu, Julie Stephany Berrio Perez, Marius Hoggenmüller +4

The rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies is fundamentally reshaping paradigms of human-vehicle collaboration, raising not only an urgent need for innovative de…

cs.HC2026

Feel the Presence: The Effects of Haptic Sensation on VR-Based Human-Robot Interaction

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmüller, Tram Thi Minh Tran +1

Virtual reality (VR) has been increasingly utilised as a simulation tool for human-robot interaction (HRI) studies due to its ability to facilitate fast and flexible prototyping. D…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Towards Adaptive External Communication in Autonomous Vehicles: A Conceptual Design Framework

Tram Thi Minh Tran, Judy Kay, Stewart Worrall +6

External Human-Machine Interfaces (eHMIs) are key to facilitating interaction between autonomous vehicles and external road actors, yet most remain reactive and do not account for…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Understanding Pedestrian Gesture Misrecognition: Insights from Vision-Language Model Reasoning

Tram Thi Minh Tran, Xinyan Yu, Callum Parker +3

Pedestrian gestures play an important role in traffic communication, particularly in interactions with autonomous vehicles (AVs), yet their subtle, ambiguous, and context-dependent…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Yue Luo, Xinyan Yu, Tram Thi Minh Tran +1

Uncertainty is an inherent aspect of autonomous vehicle (AV) decision-making, yet it is rarely communicated to pedestrians, which hinders transparency. This study investigates how…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Animal Interaction with Autonomous Mobility Systems: Designing for Multi-Species Coexistence

Tram Thi Minh Tran, Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller +5

Autonomous mobility systems increasingly operate in environments shared with animals, from urban pets to wildlife. However, their design has largely focused on human interaction, w…

cs.HC2025★ 3 cited

Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction in Shared Spaces: The Impact of Intended Path-Projection

Le Yue, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Xinyan Yu +1

External Human-Machine Interfaces (eHMIs) are critical for seamless interactions between autonomous vehicles (AVs) and pedestrians in shared spaces. However, they often struggle to…

cs.RO2025★ 4 cited

Peek into the `White-Box': A Field Study on Bystander Engagement with Urban Robot Uncertainty

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Tram Thi Minh Tran +3

Uncertainty inherently exists in the autonomous decision-making process of robots. Involving humans in resolving this uncertainty not only helps robots mitigate it but is also cruc…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Robots in the Wild: Contextually-Adaptive Human-Robot Interactions in Urban Public Environments

Xinyan Yu, Yiyuan Wang, Tram Thi Minh Tran +9

The increasing transition of human-robot interaction (HRI) context from controlled settings to dynamic, real-world public environments calls for enhanced adaptability in robotic sy…

cs.HC2024★ 14 cited

Encouraging Bystander Assistance for Urban Robots: Introducing Playful Robot Help-Seeking as a Strategy

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Martin Tomitsch

Robots in urban environments will inevitably encounter situations beyond their capabilities (e.g., delivery robots unable to press traffic light buttons), necessitating bystander a…

cs.HC2024★ 12 cited

From Agent Autonomy to Casual Collaboration: A Design Investigation on Help-Seeking Urban Robots

Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Martin Tomitsch

As intelligent agents transition from controlled to uncontrolled environments, they face challenges that sometimes exceed their operational capabilities. In many scenarios, they re…