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   * 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]]