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This paper investigates the level of comfort in people with different robot approach paths. While engaged in a shared task, 45 pairs of participants were approached by a robot from eight different directions and asked to rate their level of comfort. Results show that comfortability patterns of individuals in pairs is different to lone individuals when they are approached by a robot. This in turn influences how comfortable a group is with different robot approach paths.
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Ball, A., Silvera-Tawil, D., Rye, D., Velonaki, M. (2014). Group Comfortability When a Robot Approaches. In: Beetz, M., Johnston, B., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_5
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