Roillo: Creating a Social Robot for Playrooms

Michalowski, Marek P.; Šabanović, Selma; Michel, P.

doi:10.1109/roman.2006.314453

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“…They found a significant difference between the two conditions with respect to the time children spent with the robot, yet this experiment concerned contingency rather than the type of rhythmic synchrony we are developing. We have observed similar differences between contingent and non-contingent behaviors in rhythmic interaction between children and a robot-like puppet [17], and furthermore observed a higher incidence of rhythmic play by children when the robot behaved contingently. Based on exploratory observations of the herein described system [16], we believe that the robot's synchrony with environmental and social rhythms has a strong effect on the quality of resulting social interactions.…”

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Methodological Issues in Facilitating Rhythmic Play with Robots

Michalowski

Kozima

2007

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

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Abstract-We are currently investigating the use of rhythm and synchrony in human-robot interaction. Specifically, we are developing techniques for the perception and generation of social rhythmic behaviors in nonverbal dance-oriented play between children and a small creature-like robot. While our goal is to develop and evaluate technological artifacts that can participate in rhythmically coordinated social interactions, it is first necessary to develop and evaluate appropriate methodologies for the evaluation of such technology. In this paper we present our experience in developing and revising an experimental paradigm for the evaluation of dance-oriented play with a robot. We propose that strictly controlled experimental paradigms for even such constrained interactions preclude the full expression (and therefore observation) of interactive behaviors that can be considered sufficiently rich and natural for the study of the complex yet fundamental rhythmic properties of social interaction.

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Methodological Issues in Facilitating Rhythmic Play with Robots

Michalowski

Kozima

2007

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

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“…Such work includes two robots that are being designed with 'dance' or rhythm in mind, Keepon and Roillo. The designers of these robots suggest that dance orientated non-verbal play is important for social interaction [27,28]. The RUBI project also indicates that among other things, dance is important to social interaction.…”

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Going into the wild in child–robot interaction studies: issues in social robotic development

Salter

Werry

Michaud

2008

Intel Serv Robotics

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As robots move into more human centric environments we require methods to develop robots that can naturally interact with humans. Doing so requires testing in the real-world and addressing multidisciplinary challenges. Our research is focused on child-robot interaction which includes very young children, for example toddlers, and children diagnosed with autism. More traditional forms of human-robot communication, such as speech or gesture recognition, may not be appropriate with these users, where as touch may help to provide a more natural and appropriate means of communication for such instances. In this paper, we present our findings on these topics obtained from a project involving a spherical robot that acquires information regarding natural touch from analysing sensory patterns over-time to characterize the information. More specifically, from this project we have derived important factors for future consideration, we describe our iterative experimental methodology of testing in and out of the 'wild' (lab based and real world), and outline discoveries that were made by doing so.

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“…A well known example is KISMET where facial expressions were used to regulate the interaction with people inspired by interactions of infants with their caretakers [9]. Other recent examples include small cartoon like robotic "creatures" such as Keepon and Roillo designed to be used in interaction with children [10,11]. These little rubber robots have a limited action repertoire, but can produce selected gestures to engage in interaction with children in the playground.…”

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“…It has 3 wires connected to simple servos which move the head and body in various directions. It is used in experiments with children to study interactions between robot and children [10].…”

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Drum-mate: A human-humanoid drumming experience

Köse

Dautenhahn

Syrdal

et al. 2007

2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

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Abstract-We present an exploratory study investigating a drumming experience with Kaspar, a humanoid child-sized robot, and a human. In this work, our aim is not to have Kaspar just replicate the human partner's drumming, but to engage with the human in a 'social manner' using head gestures in a call and response turn-taking interaction and to assess the impact of nonverbal gestures on the interaction. Results from the first implementation of a human-robot interaction experiment are presented and analysed qualitatively (in terms of participants' subjective experiences) and quantitatively (concerning the drumming performance of the human-robot pair). The interaction experience is discussed in terms of imitation, turntaking, and the effect of gender differences.

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Roillo: Creating a Social Robot for Playrooms

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Methodological Issues in Facilitating Rhythmic Play with Robots

Methodological Issues in Facilitating Rhythmic Play with Robots

Going into the wild in child–robot interaction studies: issues in social robotic development

Drum-mate: A human-humanoid drumming experience

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