arxivcs.RO2026-07-10
Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation
Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami
Virtual Reality (VR) offers a flexible and controllable platform for studying human-robot interaction. Prior work has explored VR for socially aware robot navigation. However, whether VR captures the multimodal interaction dynamics observed in real-world human-robot co-navigation…