WP4 – Socially Acceptable Decision Making

Moving into an environment populated by humans requires considering a complex system that goes beyond the modelling of human–robot proximity, and that combines navigating through cluttered space and natural motion with the possibility of not causing discomfort. Socially enhanced decision-making abilities will require more and more integration of planning with contextual information, but also the ability to integrate a human’s feedback and preferences into the planning loop and be proactive. To this extent, they must predict incoming events, anticipate possible consequences, and select the best possible action and the most understandable and social behaviour to be aligned with people’s social expectations. However, there are very few examples of robots exhibiting social awareness of their whole functionalities. In this direction, focuses on Socially Acceptable Decision-Making (WP4) and allows robots to select actions required to achieve a goal efficiently based on the characteristics of plans that are perceived as socially acceptable.