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======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 can 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]]