Robot-Assisted Social Dining as a White Glove Service
Atharva S Kashyap, Ugne Aleksandra Morkute, Patricia Alves-Oliveira · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper addresses a gap in the robot-assisted feeding literature: existing systems are almost exclusively evaluated in the lab or the home for solitary dining, leaving public, social contexts such as restaurants largely unstudied. The authors argue that social dining…
assistive robotics · robot-assisted feeding · speculative design · participatory design · generative AI