Involving Users in the Design of a Mobile Office Robot

Hüttenrauch, Helge; Green, Anders; Norman, M.; Oestreicher, Lars; Eklundh, Kerstin Severinson

doi:10.1109/tsmcc.2004.826281

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“…b) as a puppet, whereby the investigator is the puppeteer and moves the robot's arms, legs or head by a simple press of buttons on his laptop (this approach is related to the Wizard-of-Oz technique used in human-computer interaction (HCI) and more recently in human-robot interaction (HRI) research, e.g. [24], [20].…”

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Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Robins

Dautenhahn

Boekhorst

et al. 2005

Univ Access Inf Soc

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This article presents a longitudinal study with four children with autism who were exposed to a humanoid robot over a period of several months. The longitudinal approach allowed the children time to explore the space of robot-human, as well as human-human interaction. Based on the video material documenting the interactions, a quantitative as well as qualitative analysis was conducted. The quantitative analysis showed an increase in duration of pre-defined behaviours towards the later trials. A qualitative analysis of the video data, observing the children's activities in their interactional context, revealed further aspects of social interaction skills (imitation, turn-taking and role-switch) and communicative competence that the children showed. The results clearly demonstrate the need for and benefits of long-term studies in order to reveal the full potential of robots in the therapy and education of children with autism.

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Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Robins

Dautenhahn

Boekhorst

et al. 2005

Univ Access Inf Soc

566

308

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“…INTRODUCTION Research in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has recently received significant attention, especially in the areas of assisting people in their daily activities [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Many researchers believe such robots should behave in a socially acceptable manner in order to gain acceptability in human-inhabited social environments [8][9][10][11][12]. Therefore, it is essential to include humans in the loop when designing HRI trials.…”

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Living with Robots: Investigating the Habituation Effect in Participants' Preferences During a Longitudinal Human-Robot Interaction Study

Koay

Syrdal

Walters

et al. 2007

RO-MAN 2007 - The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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Abstract-This paper presents and discusses a longitudinal study which investigated habituation effects between humans and robots over a period of five weeks. Participants' preferences for the robot's approach distance with respect to its approach direction and appearance were investigated in a variety of domestic scenarios. These human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios were also designed to explore the notions of autonomy and control.The results of this study show that participants' preferences change over time as the participants habituate to the robot. This trend was significant in terms of the robot's appearance and approach direction. Also, it seems to indicate that participants who are accustomed to the robot prefer to be more 'in control' of the situation -in that they appreciated reduced robot autonomy in case of unexpected events.

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“…A significant effort in this area has been shown in designing entertainment and toy robots [32], [20], in which the focus is on designing robots that exhibit social, humanlike characteristics: expressing or perceiving emotions, being sociable [8], establishing or maintaining relationships, and making friends [1]. For domains such as service or assistive applications [16], [27], a significant challenge is that robots not only can express but also understand this wide range of social cues. In this context, awareness of the world [10], [33] serves to achieve better interaction between humans and robots.…”

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A flexible control architecture for extended autonomy of robotic assistants

King¹,

Palathingal²,

Nicolescu³

2009

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Abstract-A major challenge in deploying robots into the real world is the design of an architectural framework which can provide extended, natural and effective interactions with people. Within this framework, key issues that need to be solved relate to the robots' ability to engage in interactions in a natural way, to deal with multiple users, and to be continually perceptive of their surroundings. In this paper we propose a robot control architecture that addresses these issues. Our architecture has three main key features. First, it enables the representation of complex, sequential and hierarchical robot tasks, typically needed for service applications, in a behavior-based framework. Second, it provides the robot with flexibility in dealing with multiple users, such as to accommodate multiple user requests and task interruptions, over extended periods. Third, through its visual detection mechanism, the architecture allows the robot to identify when people are requesting its interaction. We demonstrate our approach on a Pioneer 3DX mobile robot, performing service tasks in a real-world environment.Index Terms-Human-robot interaction, behavioral robotics, personal robots.

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Involving Users in the Design of a Mobile Office Robot

Cited by 54 publications

References 20 publications

Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Living with Robots: Investigating the Habituation Effect in Participants' Preferences During a Longitudinal Human-Robot Interaction Study

A flexible control architecture for extended autonomy of robotic assistants

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