Proactive Behaviour

Socially assistive robots represent a promising tool in assistive contexts for improving people's quality of life and well-being through social, emotional, cognitive, and physical support. However, the effectiveness of interactions heavily relies on …

While most of the current work has been focused on developing adaptive techniques to respond to human-initiated inputs (what behaviour to perform), very few of them have explored how to proactively initiate an interaction (when to perform a given …