Robot interaction
Lecture 1 + Literature
, Lecture 1 - Summary
Introducti on robot interacti on, design and users
Course goals:
Articulate the core themes and challenges in the field of Social Robotics.
o Understand the interdisciplinary contributions that develop Social Robots.
o Describe and evaluate main theories from various field to understand how humans interact
and communicate with social robots.
o Understand, describe and compare screen-based versus robot-based interaction.
o Discuss and compare key findings in fundamental areas of Robot Interaction, such as
typology of robots; application areas; relating to robots; psychological aspects; language
understanding in robots; robots outperforming humans while being worse communicators;
modeling theories for performance in robots; ethical considerations.
o Develop a good understanding of up-to-date and interdisciplinary scientific research in the
field and in various application areas.
o Understand and apply an academic multi-disciplinary attitude, academic writing style, search
for insights in complex phenomena, theoretical and empirical approaches.
o Apply an analytical approach to model communication in robots.
o Exercise reverse engineering, building scenarios, interaction design, concurrent algorithmic
approaches.
There are differences between de design and the perception of a robot.
Within the robot design, you deal with the design principles:
- shape, form
- color
- functionality
- affordances
Within the perception of the user, there are different processes to take into account:
< All these aspects differ with respect to gender, age, personality, race >
- where is the attention of the user (where is it looking at)
- what does it perceive
- what feeling is aroused
- user psychology
There is not “one-for-all” robot who fits best in all circumstances (there is no BEST robot).
The analytical structure when creating a robot:
Meet the robot -> Process the robot -> Effect the robot
Motivation processing underlying effects
Selection mechanisms consequences
Needs, goals, desires…
Lecture 1 + Literature
, Lecture 1 - Summary
Introducti on robot interacti on, design and users
Course goals:
Articulate the core themes and challenges in the field of Social Robotics.
o Understand the interdisciplinary contributions that develop Social Robots.
o Describe and evaluate main theories from various field to understand how humans interact
and communicate with social robots.
o Understand, describe and compare screen-based versus robot-based interaction.
o Discuss and compare key findings in fundamental areas of Robot Interaction, such as
typology of robots; application areas; relating to robots; psychological aspects; language
understanding in robots; robots outperforming humans while being worse communicators;
modeling theories for performance in robots; ethical considerations.
o Develop a good understanding of up-to-date and interdisciplinary scientific research in the
field and in various application areas.
o Understand and apply an academic multi-disciplinary attitude, academic writing style, search
for insights in complex phenomena, theoretical and empirical approaches.
o Apply an analytical approach to model communication in robots.
o Exercise reverse engineering, building scenarios, interaction design, concurrent algorithmic
approaches.
There are differences between de design and the perception of a robot.
Within the robot design, you deal with the design principles:
- shape, form
- color
- functionality
- affordances
Within the perception of the user, there are different processes to take into account:
< All these aspects differ with respect to gender, age, personality, race >
- where is the attention of the user (where is it looking at)
- what does it perceive
- what feeling is aroused
- user psychology
There is not “one-for-all” robot who fits best in all circumstances (there is no BEST robot).
The analytical structure when creating a robot:
Meet the robot -> Process the robot -> Effect the robot
Motivation processing underlying effects
Selection mechanisms consequences
Needs, goals, desires…
