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-======M14 First Skeleton Companions======
+======M14 First Skeleton Companions : April 2009======
 **D9.2. First skeleton companions M14 Result of completion of T9.1.2 Report, live experiment**
+Very sketchy ideas at this point, pending more information and getting hands dirty with ION. Will be chopped and solidified as more information is acquired.
+======Scenarios======
+Directions to take based on the existing scenarios. [TODO]
+Heriot Watt Spirit of the building:
+  - Team buddy, a mobile robot/collective memory for a team working in a lab
+  - Personal guide - for navigating around a university campus, remembering appointments, telling you where to go
+  - In the wild - a gossip/chat robot - appears on a large screen in a social area
+INESC-ID
+  - Game companion for young children
+  - Personal trainer - which can migrate to mobile robot for jogging exercises
+  - Welcome to the jungle - talk to game characters through a robot which can alternate between real and game world
+The University of Hertfordshire
+  - Fetch and carry, to help with physical impairment or provide convenience
+  - Cognitive prosthetic - memory aid for tasks
+  - Telepresence card player - a robot mediates play between two people
+  - Teaching proxemic preferences - a robot learns where to be relative to the user in different situations
+  - Travelling companion - agent migration, to stay with user during home, work, shopping
+======New directions======
+These are some vague directions to head in, I need to consider how far down each path we could get for this deliverable.
+=====Automatic Theatres=====
+What:
+  * Multiple interacting agents
+  * Long term memory and personality based on fictional characters
+  * Short term memory based on beginning of play
+  * Audience participation
+Why:
+  * Audience familiar with characters
+  * Could form a good benchmark for social interaction
+  * How do they resolve interesting social situations
+  * Start in the middle of a familiar story?
+  * What happens after the story ends?
+Further:
+  * [[http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/16/169.html|Heron's Nauplius]]
+  * Robot Macbeth
+  * Robot Soap Operas
+=====Alternative affective communication=====
+What:
+  * Look into alternative methods of communicating affective state to the user
+  * Non-vocal sounds
+  * Non-literal visuals
+Why:
+  * Uncanny valley
+  * Remove the problem of simulating human expressions
+  * The challenge of meeting the robot halfway in mutual understanding might be more engaging
+  * Task of deciphering results in more implied/imagined content
+  * People work together to try and understand
+Further:
+  * [[http://www.boutiquevizique.com/dustbunnies/index.html|Dust bunnies]]
+  * Robot [[http://www.boutiquevizique.com/dustbunnies/index.html|Semaphore]]
+=====Modular programmable personalities=====
+What:
+  * Interface to allow the user to easily build and configure robots
+  * At the software level
+  * Reconfigurable layer 2 <-> layer 3
+  * Need some common goal, or competition
+Why:
+  * Suspicion that the attachment gained by having a role in the design of a robot is greater than a finely tuned system (or even a system which works)
+  * Present the internals of the system to the user in some clear manner
+  * Long term attachment through tweakability
+Further:
+  * [[wp>CRobots]]
+=====Artificial Dependency=====
+What:
+  * Physical dependency
+    * Needs feeding
+    * Needs transport - has wheels, but asks to be carried everywhere
+    * Needs light - not solar powered, but doesn't like the dark
+    * Gets cold - needs physical contact
+  * Emotional
+    * Paranoia - requires constant reassuring noises
+    * Anger - needs calming, physical contact
+    * Sadness - needs singing to
+  * All of the above?!
+  * It may be important that they are entirely unnecessary needs
+Why:
+  * Sounds really irritating, but - Tamagotchi
+  * Long term attachment through manipulation of the caring instinct and guilt
+  * The feeling that something is dependant on you
+  * More effective/complex strategies can be learnt over time - "give him to me, I know how to calm him down"
+Further:
+  * [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009_pf.html|"Inhumane" treatment of robots in the army]]