Recognizing Rare Social Phenomena in Conversation: Empowerment Detection in Support Group Chatrooms

In Search of a Lost Metric: Human Empowerment as a Pillar of Socially Conscious Navigation

In social robot navigation, traditional metrics like proxemics and behavior naturalness emphasize human comfort and adherence to social norms but often fail to capture an agent's autonomy and adaptability in dynamic envi…

Predicting Social Media User Actions: A Hybrid Approach for Common and Rare Behavior Prediction on Bluesky

Understanding and predicting user behavior on social media platforms is crucial for content recommendation and platform design. While existing approaches focus primarily on common actions like retweeting and liking, the …

Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage

Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale empirical analysis of disempowerment patter…

Recognizing Social Constructs from Textual Conversation

Social Navigation with Human Empowerment driven Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mobile robot navigation has seen extensive research in the last decades. The aspect of collaboration with robots and humans sharing workspaces will become increasingly important in the future. Therefore, the next generat…