5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION 2010
Workshop on Interaction Science Perspective on HRI: Designing Robot Morphology
March 2, Osaka (Japan)
http://www.robot.uji.es/research/events/hri2010
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Overview
This half-day HRI 2010 workshop will address the impact of robot morphology on human-robot interaction (HRI) from the perspective of Interaction Science (IS), which advances knowledge about human interactions with digital technologies for pursuing theory, design, creation, implementation and evaluation of communication technologies.
If embodiment is the unique feature of robots, then a fundamental HRI issue pertains to the effect of a particular morphology or physical design in the way humans interact with a robot, what humans expect the robot to do, and how humans respond to it. Morphology is first conditioned by the specific engineering purpose that the robot must fulfill. For example, a vision-based system suggests the design of an anthropomorphic face, but this has to be balanced with the “uncanny valley effect”: at what point does human response to an anthropomorphic robot change from empathy to repulsion?… read more. “Call: ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction 2010”