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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. | ||
It sounds as if it is a place where you go and visit a robot' | It sounds as if it is a place where you go and visit a robot' | ||
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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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+ | Regarding the subjects' | ||
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+ | ===Evaluating the Host=== | ||
+ | When subjects evaluated the efficiency of their host all scenarios yielded almost the same evaluation unless for the “standing in the middle of the room” scenario. In the last scenario, frontal direction approach was specifically preferred. This is probably because when standing, the subject didn’t feel intimidated by the robot as in that case the subject would have been taller than the robot' | ||
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+ | To conclude, when evaluating the host in the robot house with the two experimentation style we note that there is no significant difference between the live or the video HRI style and results were equivalent in the two cases. This finding suggests that VHRI can be used instead of the live experiments in some cases with offering many of the added-values mentioned earlier, the probability and feasibility of this suggestion grows smaller with the more human-robot interaction involved. Next time if you want to visit a robot house and you only find a big screen viewing a robot video inside, then don't be surprised and enjoy the experience. | ||
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+ | Generally speaking, this robot house experience spots the light on the appropriate actions a robot should have when serving or fetching people objects, it has to approach from the front when feasible. If not, then it has to consider the most appropriate direction approach with considerations of not intimidating the subject. In other words, the robot has to have the courtesy behaviour and not only the high-class people. | ||
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+ | you can check some videos of the Robot House [[http:// | ||
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+ | Related Articles: | ||
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+ | References: | ||
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+ | [1] S. N. Woods, M. L. Walters, K. L. Koay, K. Dautenhahn, " | ||
+ | [2] C. D. Kidd, “Sociable robots: The role of presence and task in human-robot interaction”. MSc Thesis 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts. | ||
+ | [3] J. N. Bailensen, J. Blascovich, A. C. Beall, J. M. Loomis, “Interpersonal distance in immersive virtual environments”. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 2003, pp. 819-833. | ||
+ | [4] A. Paiva, J. Dias, D. Sobral, R. Aylett, S. Woods, L. Hall, C. Zoll, “Caring for Agents that care: Building empathic relations with synthetic agents”. in Proc. AAMAS Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Sys194 – 201. | ||
+ | [5] S. N. Woods, M. L. Walters, K. L. Koay, K. Dautenhahn, " | ||
+ | [6] E.T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension: Man's Use of Space in Public and Private. The Bodley Head Ltd, London, UK. 1966 | ||
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