Theatre as a Discussion Tool in Human-Robot Interaction Experiments : A Pilot Study

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Exploring robot etiquette : Refining a HRI home companion scenario based on feedback from two artists who lived with robots in the UH robot house

This paper presents an exploratory Human-Robot Interaction study which investigated robot etiquette, in particular focusing on understanding the types and forms of robot behaviours that people might expect from a robot that lives and shares space with them in their home. The experiment was intended to tease out the participants' reasoning behind their choices preferences and suggestions for passive robot behaviours that could usefully complement the robot's active behaviours in order to allow the robot to exhibit considerate and socially intelligent interactions with people

My familiar robot companion : Preferences and perceptions of CHARLY, a companion humanoid autonomous robot for living with you

This paper presents findings from a survey conducted with visitors to the My Familiar Companion exhibit, part of the HUMAN+ Exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The exhibit consisted of a humanoid robot, CHARLY (Companion Humanoid Autonomous Robot for Living with You) with a head with a back projected morphing composite face derived from nearby people. Visitors answered a computer-based questionnaire to gain their perceptions and opinions of the exhibit, and also their preferences for a robot that they would like to have in their own home. The main findings indicated that most respondents would not want a very human-like robot, but most would prefer to own a robot with some human-like attributes and capabilities. A principle component analyses indicated that people perceive two main factors when rating their preferences for their preferred robots, Physical Similarity and Expressive Similarity. Both these derived factors correlate strongly to their ratings for Human-likeness versus Machine-likeness. It was found that slightly more male than female respondents were more likely to relate to their own robot as a colleague, though overall, most respondents would relate to their own robot as a servant or tool

Artists as HRI pioneers : A creative approach to developing novel interactions for living with robots

In this article we present a long-term, continuous human-robot cohabitation experiment, which involved two professional artists, whose artistic work explores the boundary between science and society. The artists lived in the University of Hertfordshire Robot House full-time with various robots with different characteristics in a smart home environment. The artists immersed themselves in the robot populated living environment in order to explore and develop novel ways to interact with robots. The main research aim was to explore in a qualitative way the impact of a continuous weeklong exposure to robot companions and sensor environments on humans. This work has developed an Integrative Holistic Feedback Approach (IHFA) involving knowledgeable users in the design process of appearances, functionality and interactive behaviour of robots