Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
26 results found tagged human-robot interaction.
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Towards LLM-powered Assistive Drone for Blind and Low Vision Users
Wei and colleagues built and evaluated a voice-based assistive drone prototype for blind and low-vision (BLV) users that leverages GPT-4o in two stages: generating step-by-step Python drone-control code from natural-language commands, and interpretin…
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Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Perinatal Depression Screening: Insights and Ethical Considerations from Two Exploratory Studies
This paper reports two exploratory studies investigating the use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) for Perinatal Depression (PND) screening. PND affects up to 10% of individuals during pregnancy or postpartum, yet 50% of antenatal depression cases …
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DiG-Net: Enhancing Human–Robot Interaction through Hyper-Range Dynamic Gesture Recognition in Assistive Robotics
DiG-Net (Distance-aware Gesture Network) addresses a fundamental limitation in gesture-controlled assistive robotics: existing dynamic gesture recognition systems work reliably only within about seven metres of the camera, severely constraining their…
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Robots for Older Adults: A Scoping Review
This mixed-method scoping review in the ACM Journal of Human-Robot Interaction establishes the state of the science for robots supporting older adults, covering 205 empirical studies published from 2010 through 2022. The review follows PRISMA reporti…
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Robot Characters: Co-Designing Dynamic Personalities for Cognitively Assistive Robots
The paper introduces the concept of a "robot character" — a holistic, context-sensitive framing of robot personality that extends beyond trait-based models such as Big Five by incorporating shared interests, cultural background, lived experiences, an…
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Eye-Tracking-Driven Shared Control for Robotic Arms: Wizard of Oz Studies to Assess Design Choices
The paper presents two Wizard of Oz studies evaluating an eye-tracking-driven shared-control system for an assistive robotic arm — the 7-DoF Kinova Gen3 — designed for People with Severe Motor Disabilities (PSMD). PSMD here includes people with locke…
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Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interactions with Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Robots
This qualitative study re-analyses video data from two prior field studies with an Australian disability service organisation, in which adults with intellectual disabilities interacted with two commercially available social robots: Pepper, a 120 cm h…
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Enhancing Blind Visitor's Autonomy in a Science Museum Using an Autonomous Navigation Robot
Museums have historically struggled to offer blind visitors the same self-directed, exploratory experience that sighted visitors take for granted. Prior solutions — tactile tours, audio guides, or pre-fixed navigation routes — either require a human …
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Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People
Kamikubo and colleagues investigate how autonomous navigation robots for blind users should balance robot autonomy against user control, arguing that current systems default to what they call 'omakase' — a Japanese term meaning 'I leave it to you' — …
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Field Trials of Autonomous Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People
This paper reports field trials of AI Suitcase, an autonomous navigation robot shaped like a conventional carry-on suitcase and designed to guide blind and visually impaired (BVI) travellers safely through unfamiliar public spaces. The system traces …