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====Visiting The Robot House==== | ====Visiting The Robot House==== | ||
- | I think that you wonder sometimes, just like I do, about how would it really be and feel like when robots would be in a social space or a household? Will it be a different experience from when interacting with robots in exhibitions, | + | Don' |
I believe that the experience will involve various novel confused feelings. However, all guessing won't offer a solid basis for any kind of knowledge. | I believe that the experience will involve various novel confused feelings. However, all guessing won't offer a solid basis for any kind of knowledge. | ||
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+ | ===The Idea of the “Robot House”=== | ||
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+ | To know what is people' | ||
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+ | In this two rooms house, the HRI experiments took place in two experimentation styles: Live HRI and Video HRI to investigate more in the participants' | ||
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+ | ===A Robot House and a Video Interaction? | ||
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+ | Human-robot experiments involve working with medium or large human-scaled mobile robots in rather big spaces with considerable resources of hardware and human researchers and experimenters. This might pose some limitations to run consecutive experiments in HRI. | ||
+ | To overcome some of the limitations of running live HRI experiments, | ||
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+ | The VHRI setting replaces the real robot in the experiment into a character in a video footage. This video is displayed to participants who in turn will react to it. With the possibility to show it to a large number of participants at once; this method offers many advantages over the live HRI experimentation method. The repeating of the experiment with exactly the same scenario is very simple and effortless. Moreover, when editing the scenario is needed to include some of the participant point of views about it, just editing and adding some scenes to the video could easily do it. | ||
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+ | Next, we discuss the live and video HRI experiments in the robot house in details. | ||
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+ | ===The Live HRI Experiment=== | ||
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+ | In the Robot House and at the beginning, subjects were introduced to the general work and HRI by watching a video about it. Afterwards the subject would enter the living room for the live HRI experiment [5] and sit according to one of the following scenarios: | ||
+ | 1) Seated on a chair in the middle of an open space. | ||
+ | 2) Standing in the middle of an open space. | ||
+ | 3) Seated at a table in the middle of an open space. | ||
+ | 4) Standing with their back against a wall. | ||
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+ | The hosting robot would approach the subject from different directions holding a snack. The approach directions are: | ||
+ | 1- Front (F) | ||
+ | 2- Front-Left (FL) | ||
+ | 3- Front-Right (FR) | ||
+ | 4- Rear-Left (RL) | ||
+ | 5- Rear-Right (RR) | ||
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+ | The robot could only approach from where it is possible according to the current subject' | ||
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+ | Interestingly and unsurprisingly, | ||
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+ | ===The Video HRI Experiment=== | ||
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+ | In another room in the Robot House the VHRI experiments took place. Subjects sat in front of a projection screen and watched short videos. First video played was for a female actor in one of the four position scenarios mentioned before. Then another video is played for the same actor and the robot approaching her from different directions bringing her a snack. | ||
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+ | ===End of the Visit=== | ||
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+ | These two experiments were intended to see what the most preferred approach direction and what the least preferred approach direction would be for the subjects [6]. Also to inspect if there would be any difference between the live and the video setting. | ||
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