Human Behavior Monitoring and Gesture Recognition: Applications for Human-Robot Interaction and Autonomous Systems

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue (SI) solicits contributions to the design, control, and evaluation of behavior monitoring and recognition systems. In this SI, we welcome contributions that explore monitoring human behaviors and recognizing gestures in applications for human–robot interaction and autonomous systems. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions related to these aspects.

It is important to employ multiple sensory channels for natural human interactions with robots and autonomous systems. Human gestures could be integrated with other modalities of interaction for more natural interactions. A system that is able to extract task-relevant information from the human partners’ gestures and intentions could act accordingly which can be helpful for collaboration and cooperation tasks. A robot or an autonomous system that can assess the activity state of the person and take the action accordingly can lead to a more comfortable and safer HRI.

We especially welcome studies presenting trials, and studies adopting a participatory research design. We encourage submissions of research that advances the practical application of these technologies as well as work on experimental methods, models of human behavior, and design challenges. The submissions that present new datasets are also welcome. The purpose of this SI is to gather a collection of articles reflecting the latest developments in the design of human-behavior monitoring and action recognition.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Human behavior monitoring systems
2. Gesture recognition systems
3. Action recognition systems
4. Multisensor data fusion for human behavior monitoring
5. Explainable and interpretable models
6. Datasets for action/gesture recognition systems
7. Recognition and prediction of user’s intent
8. Performance metrics for action/gesture recognition systems
9. Architectures for action/gesture recognition systems
10. Solutions to privacy issues in behavior monitoring
11. Multimodal data integration and visualization
12. Behavioral coding and analysis for HRI
13. Behavior interpretation
14. Behavior tracking systems for smart environments
15. Social, ethical, and legal implications of recognition systems

Dr. Annica Kristoffersson
Dr. Neziha Akalin
Prof. Dr. Ondrej Krejcar
Guest Editors

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