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The Art of Gate-Crashing Bringing HRI into users' homes
Special purpose service robots have already entered the market and their users homes. Also the idea of the general purpose service robot or personal robot companion is increasingly discussed and investigated. To probe human-robot interaction with a mobile robot in arbitrary domestic settings, we conducted a study in eight different homes. Based on previous results from laboratory studies we identified particular interaction situations which should be studied thoroughly in real home settings. Based upon the collected sensory data from the robot we found that the different environments influenced the spatial management observable during our subjects' interaction with the robot. We also validated empirically that the concept of spatial prompting can aid spatial management and communication, and assume this concept to be helpful for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) design. In this article we report on our exploratory field study and our findings regarding, in particular, the spatial management observed during show episodes and movement through narrow passages
Interaction awareness for joint environment exploration
An important goal for research on service robots
is the cooperation of a human and a robot as team. A
service robot in a domestic environment needs to build a
representation of its future workspace that corresponds to
the human user's understanding of these surroundings. But
it also needs to apply this model about the "where" and
"what" in its current interaction to allow communication about
objects and places in a human-adequate way. In this paper
we present the integration of a hierarchical robotic mapping
system into an interactive framework controlled by a dialog
system. The goal is to use interactively acquired environment
models to implement a robot with interaction aware behaviors.
A major contribution of this work is a three-level hierarchy of
spatial representation affecting three different communication
dimensions. This hierarchy is consequently applied in the design
of the grounding-based dialog, laser-based topological mapping,
and an objects attention system. We demonstrate the benefits
of this integration for learning and tour guiding in a humancomprehensible
interaction between a robot and its user in
a home-tour scenario. The enhanced interaction capabilities
are crucial for developing a new generation of robots that
will be accepted not only as service robots but also as robot
companions