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Interaction between humans and robots takes place in physical space. Beyond security concerns, humans expect social robots to act according to certain socio-spatial norms:
If robots ought not blockade doors or light switches, if they ought not invade territories without permission, if they ought not occlude the TV panel while someone is watching TV,
then they need to be aware of social spaces constituted by humans and their activities, by affordances, by ownership, or by annoyances, e.g., due to noise or stench.
We investigate which role the concept of social spaces plays to solve the problem of how social robots should spatially behave in environments shared with humans. In particular,
we focus on formally specifying social spaces to make them available to knowledge processing and logical reasoning. We apply social spaces to socially-aware robot planning
for human-robot interaction.
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