Gaze Behaviors in Human-Robot Handovers Cornell University, USA June 2019 - January 2022 Collaborators: Alap Kshirsagar (Cornell), Melanie Lim (Cornell), Shemar Christian (Cornell), Guy Hoffman (Cornell), Tair Faibish (BGU), Yael Edan (BGU)

This project investigates gaze behaviors of a robot receiving an object from a human. Robot gaze is an important nonverbal behavior during human-robot handovers, yet prior work has only studied robots as givers. We analyze videos and human participant studies to make design recommendations for how to program a receiver robot’s social gaze.

Publications

*Faibish, T., *Kshirsagar, A., Hoffman, G., & Edan, Y., Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022

Kshirsagar, A., Lim, M., Christian, S., & Hoffman, G., Robot Gaze Behaviors in Human-to-Robot Handovers, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020