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How robots understand 'here' and 'there': a perceptual model for spatial deixis
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Spatial Cognitive Engineering)ORCID iD: 0009-0008-5682-4312
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (Spatial Cognitive Engineering)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5629-0981
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science. (UmU Spatial Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6398-8488
2026 (English)In: HRI Companion '26: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (March 2026), ACM Digital Library, 2026, p. 1018-1022Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Grounding spatial deixis is essential for establishing shared spatial understanding in HRI. This paper presents the Spatial Deixis Model (SDM), a perceptual framework allowing a robot to infer the English spatial deixis here and there from pointing gestures and using a dynamic, embodied peri-personal space. We performed an empirical evaluation of the SDM with 12 participants in 5 scenarios with different contexts (e.g., varying distances and/or heights with respect to human and robot). Results show that the localization accuracy for the pointed-at objects across 174 trials is 92% and the overall agreement across all trials is 63.7%, demonstrating that SDM generally captures the dynamic notion of spatial deixis.

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ACM Digital Library, 2026. p. 1018-1022
Keywords [en]
Spatial deixis, ‘Here’ and ‘There’, Perceptual disambiguation, Spatial Representations, Human-Robot Interaction, Spatial linguistics
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Human Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence
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Computer Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-251472DOI: 10.1145/3776734.3794548Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105036971682ISBN: 9798400723216 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-251472DiVA, id: diva2:2048887
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HRI '26: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, March 16–19, 2026.
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Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2026-03-26 Created: 2026-03-26 Last updated: 2026-06-01Bibliographically approved

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Mandal, AdwitiyaRichter, Kai-FlorianFalomir, Zoe

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