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**D9.2. First skeleton companions M14 Result of completion of T9.1.2 Report, live experiment** | **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 pruned | + | Very sketchy ideas at this point, pending more information and getting hands dirty with ION. Will be chopped |
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+ | These are some vague directions to head in, I need to consider how far down each path we can get for this deliverable. | ||
=====Automatic Theatres===== | =====Automatic Theatres===== | ||
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* Robot Soap Operas | * Robot Soap Operas | ||
+ | =====Alternative affective communication===== | ||
+ | What: | ||
+ | * Look into alternative methods of communicating affective state to the user | ||
+ | * Non-vocal sounds | ||
+ | * Non-literal visuals | ||
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+ | 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/ | ||
+ | * People work together to try and understand | ||
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+ | Further: | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * Robot [[http:// | ||
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+ | =====Modular programmable personalities===== | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | Further: | ||
+ | * [[wp> | ||
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+ | =====Artificial Dependency===== | ||
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+ | What: | ||
+ | * Physical dependency | ||
+ | * Needs feeding | ||
+ | * Needs transport - has wheels, but asks to be carried everywhere | ||
+ | * Needs light - not solar powered, but doesn' | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | 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/ | ||
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+ | Further: | ||
+ | * [[http:// |