We can recently use various kinds of devices for virtual/augmented/mixed reality such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Play Station VR, Microsoft HoloLens and so on. These devices are currently applied to game systems, entertainment products and so on; however, the potential of the devices also have a great influence on research on human-robot interaction. With the help of recent motion measurement technologies, we can log in to an avatar in virtual reality. Thus the interaction between virtual robot agents and real humans is easily available on such VR systems. Conventional robotics research using virtual space tends to focus on the dynamics simulation of physical behavior of robot systems; however, analysis of cognitive and social human-robot interaction in VR space would also be attractive applications as new trends. For example, the SIGVerse system released by the organizer has already applied to robot competitions to evaluate and promote a new type of tasks which require cognitive and social human-robot interaction ability.
In this workshop, we’d like to discuss how to build such Virtual/Augmented/Mixed reality system to promote human-robot interaction research, and exchange cutting-edge research topics from an interdisciplinary point of views. ‘Human-Robot Interaction’ in this workshop does not focus only on conventional robot systems but includes a variety of applications such as teleoperation of semi-autonomous robots, tele-existence systems, rehabilitation systems, haptic human interfaces for VR application and so on.
We invite contributions in the following topics that are indicative but by no means exhaustive:
In the poster session, we welcome interactive demonstration using actual VR/AR/MR systems. We accelerate discussion and exchange of acknowledgement through real experience on the demonstration.
Room 206 at the RO-MAN 2018 conference venue
The Jiangsu International Conference Center, (江蘇省會議中心)
which is the same location as the Nanjing Zhongshan Hotel (南京鐘山賓館)
Address: 307 Zhongshan East Road, Nanjing
Title: Expanding Human Embodied Interaction with Haptic Technologies
Title: Large Scale Learning System of Multimodal Spatial Concept using Immersive VR Environments
Title: Learning of Embodied Collaborative Behaviors in Cyber-Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Immersive User Interfaces
Title: Simulation platform for evaluation of human-robot communication behavior in immersive VR