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cs.RO2025
Using Vision-Language Models as Proxies for Social Intelligence in Human-Robot Interaction
Fanjun Bu, Melina Tsai, Audrey Tjokro +3
Robots operating in everyday environments must often decide when and whether to engage with people, yet such decisions often hinge on subtle nonverbal cues that unfold over time an…
cs.RO2025
Making Sense of Robots in Public Spaces: A Study of Trash Barrel Robots
Fanjun Bu, Kerstin Fischer, Wendy Ju
In this work, we analyze video data and interviews from a public deployment of two trash barrel robots in a large public space to better understand the sensemaking activities peopl…
cs.RO2024
ReStory: VLM-augmentation of Social Human-Robot Interaction Datasets
Fanjun Bu, Wendy Ju
Internet-scaled datasets are a luxury for human-robot interaction (HRI) researchers, as collecting natural interaction data in the wild is time-consuming and logistically challengi…