Human-robot symbolic communication drawing Dataset

Overview This dataset accompanies the article introducing a novel Human-Robot Interaction paradigm where sketching is employed as a tool to investigate and train symbolic communication. The dataset includes drawing prompts and participant sketches.The data support the experimental evaluation of how humans generate sketches in response to textual prompts that refer to different semantic categories: objects, actions, and interactions.The dataset is organized to allow researchers to analyze drawing strategies and semantic representation through sketches. Preliminary findings reported in the accompanying manuscript indicate that drawing strategies vary significantly depending on semantic complexity and the presence of an interaction goal. Contents Textual prompts based on a controlled semantic grammar Corresponding human-made sketches Potential Uses This dataset can support further research in: Human-Robot Interaction Symbolic and multimodal communication Sketch‑based interfaces and semantic representation Citation For more information please consult the associated paper: Pusceddu, G., Schiatti, L., Senacheribbe, A., Gori, M., Del Bue, A., & Sciutti, A. (2026). Drawing Strategies during Human-Robot Symbolic Communication. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26), March 16–19, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794374 @inproceedings{10.1145/3776734.3794374,author = {Pusceddu, Giulia and Schiatti, Lucia and Senacheribbe, Andrea and Gori, Monica and Del Bue, Alessio and Sciutti, Alessandra},title = {Drawing Strategies during Human-Robot Symbolic Communication},year = {2026},isbn = {9798400723216},publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},address = {New York, NY, USA},url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794374},doi = {10.1145/3776734.3794374},booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},pages = {160–164},numpages = {5},keywords = {Drawing, Human-Robot Interaction, Sketches, Social Cognition, Symbolic Communication, Visual Representations},location = {Edinburgh, Scotland, UK},series = {HRI Companion '26}} Please cite the indicated article if you use the dataset.