Guo, S. G., Yu, J. J., Niu, W., Gao, Y., Hoffman, G., Leshed, G., & Green, K. E. (2026).
Robot-Mediated Mutual Gaze: How a Mobile Robot with Actuated Mirrors Facilitates Encounters between Strangers

In Proc. of the Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
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10.1145/3757279.3785647
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Abstract

This paper examines how a mobile robot equipped with actuated mirrors can mediate visual contact between previously unacquainted individuals in public settings.