Xinyan Yu

schoolUniversity of Sydneybar_chart#1077 Global Rank

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Envisioning Audio Augmented Reality in Everyday Life

While visual augmentation dominates the augmented reality landscape, devices like Meta Ray-Ban audio smart glasses signal growing industry movement toward audio augmented reality (AAR). Hearing is a primary channel for sensing context, anticipating change, and navigating social space, yet AAR’s everyday potential rema…

CHI '261st AuthorSmart Cities & Urban Sensing +2

Animated Public Furniture as an Interaction Mediator: Engaging Passersby In-the-Wild with Robotic Benches

Urban HCI investigates how digital technologies shape human behaviour within the social, spatial, temporal dynamics of public space. Meanwhile, robotic furniture research demonstrates how the purposeful animation of mundane utilitarian elements can influence human behaviour in everyday contexts. Taken together, these…

AUTO_UI '252nd AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists +2

Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions

Uncertainty is inherent in the decision-making of autonomous vehicles (AVs), yet it is rarely communicated to pedestrians, hindering transparency. This study explored approaches and outcomes of communicating AV uncertainty to pedestrians. Two communication approaches (explicit and implicit) were developed to convey di…

AUTO_UI '252nd AuthorUbiquitous Computing +2

Animal Interaction with Autonomous Mobility Systems: Designing for Multi-Species Coexistence

Autonomous mobility systems increasingly operate in environments shared with animals, from urban pets to wildlife. However, their design has largely focused on human interaction, with limited understanding of how non-human species perceive, respond to, or are affected by these systems. Motivated by research in Animal-…

CHI '251st AuthorHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +2

Peek into the `White-Box': A Field Study on Bystander Engagement with Urban Robot Uncertainty

Uncertainty inherently exists in the autonomous decision-making process of robots. Involving humans in resolving this uncertainty not only helps robots mitigate it but is also crucial for improving human-robot interactions. However, in public urban spaces filled with unpredictability, robots often face heightened unce…

UBICOMP '243rd AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists

Evaluating Autonomous Vehicle External Communication using a Multi-Pedestrian VR Simulator

Tran等人开发多行人VR模拟器评估自动驾驶车辆外部通信效果，通过模拟真实交通场景测试车辆与行人交互的通信有效性和安全性。

DIS '241st AuthorSocial Robot Interaction +1

Encouraging Bystander Assistance for Urban Robots: Introducing Playful Robot Help-Seeking as a Strategy

Robots in urban environments will inevitably encounter situations beyond their capabilities (e.g., delivery robots unable to press traffic light buttons), necessitating bystander assistance. These spontaneous collaborations possess challenges distinct from traditional human-robot collaboration, requiring design invest…

CHI '241st AuthorDomestic Robots +1

From Agent Autonomy to Casual Collaboration: A Design Investigation on Help-Seeking Urban Robots

As intelligent agents transition from controlled to uncontrolled environments, they face challenges that sometimes exceed their operational capabilities. In many scenarios, they rely on assistance from bystanders to overcome those challenges. Using robots that get stuck in urban settings as an example, we investigat…

HRI '231st AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists +1

Your Way Or My Way: Improving Human-Robot Co-Navigation Through Robot Intent and Pedestrian Prediction Visualisations

As mobile robots enter shared urban spaces, operating in close proximity to people, this raises new challenges in terms of how these robots communicate with passers-by. Following an iterative process involving expert focus groups (n=8), we designed an augmented reality concept that visualises the robot's navigation in…

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