Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of a study testing a wireless device designed to produce rudimentary vision in blind people. Bussard is the first participant. Bussard, who's 56, lost vision in his left eye at age 17 after his retina detached. The right eye followed in 2016, leaving him completely blind.

We report on our effort to create a corpus dataset of different social context situations in an office setting for further disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in computer vision, psychology, and human-robot-interaction. For social robots to be able to behave appropriately, they need to be aware of the social context they act in. Consider, for example, a robot with the task to deliver a personal message to a person. If the person is arguing with an office mate at the time of message delivery, it might be more appropriate to delay playing the message as to respect the recipient's privacy and not to interfere with the current situation. This can only be done if the situation is classified correctly and in a second step if an appropriate behavior is chosen that fits the social situation. Our work aims to enable robots accomplishing the task of classifying social situations by creating a dataset composed of semantically annotated video scenes of office situations from television soap operas. The dataset can then serve as a basis for conducting research in both computer vision and human-robot interaction.