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Robotics Lecture (by Selma Sabanovic) Monday, April 3:44 PM • Companion robots ○ PARO ○ People assigning animal like attributes to the robot • Assistant robots ○ Assist teachers with giving one on one help to students ○ More in Asian (Korea, Japan) • Persuasive machines ○ Weight loss coach robot  Talks to people about diet or exercise  More effective at getting people engaged than phone apps □ It has eyes that look directly acts the speaker to motivates people more • Communication Media ○ Telepresence robot --> Webot ○ "Skype on wheels" • Models of humans ○ Geminoid ○ Uncanny valley --> like human-like objects/robots until a certain point where it is too similar to a human but is somehow off, making it creepy instead • Social Human-robot interaction ○ People prefer to interact with robots in similar ways they do with other people  People pick up on social cues that the robots were programmed to mimic ○ Robots should recognize and produce common human interactive behaviors ○ Robots as social actors can fulfill new roles as companions, caretakers, "natural" interaction partners, and mediating interfaces between humans and increasingly complex socio-technical environment we inhabit ○ Cheating robots  People were more engaged with and attributed more mental states to a robot that "cheats"  Also works for when robots do something unexpected ○ IU R-house  Designing and evaluating robots for different applications  Testing whether psychological principles of human interaction apply to human-robot interaction  Developing design recommendations for future  Projects □ Robots similar to PARO  Originally designed as a therapeutic robot for nursing homes  People make sense of robots in relation to their experiences, and adapt the robots to their cultural and daily environment □ Prototyping robots  Developing a socially assistive robot through iterative design ◊ 1st iteration: the effect of embodiment  Embodiment motivates behavioral change  Hard to ignore, seeing it was a reminder ◊ 2nd iteration: effect of social interaction  Evoked emotional responses  Naming the robots ◊ Positive reaction to socially interactive robot ◊ Work flow and job type were determinant of success and interaction with robot □ Minimalist Robot for Affective Expression (MiRAE) □ Group effects in Human Robot Interaction  People prefer single mechanomorphic and multiple anthroporphic robots  Observing group robots make their self-categorization as human stronger, so they prefer robots that are more similar to humans Dimensions of Technology Page 1