Publication
Title
An Open Platform for the Design of Social Robot Embodiments for Face-to-Face Communication
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Abstract
The role of the physical embodiment of a social robot is of key importance during the interaction with humans. If we want to study the interactions we need to be able to change the robot's embodiment to the nature of the experiment. Nowadays, researchers build one-off robots from scratch or choose to use a commercially available platform. This is justified by the time and budget constraints and the lack of design tools for social robots. In this work, we introduce an affordable open source platform to accelerate the design and production of novel social robot embodiments, with a focus on face-to-face communication. We describe an experiment where Industrial Design students created physical embodiments for 10 new social robots using our platform, detailing the design methodology followed during the different steps of the process. The paper gives an overview of the platform modules used by each of the robots, the skinning techniques employed, as well as the perceived usability of the platform. In summary, we show that our platform (1) enables non-experts to design new social robot embodiments, (2) allows a wide variety of different robots to be built with the same building blocks, and (3) affords itself to being adapted and extended.
Language
English
Source (journal)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction : [proceedings]. - Piscataway, NJ
(HRI'16)
Source (book)
11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), MAR 07-10, 2016, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
Publication
New york : Assoc computing machinery , 2016
ISBN
978-1-4673-8369-1
Volume/pages
(2016) , p. 287-294
ISI
000389809100039
UAntwerpen
Publication type
Subject
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 13.11.2023
Last edited 17.06.2024
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