A touchscreen-based 'sandtray' to facilitate, mediate and contextualise human-robot social interaction

  • Authors:
  • Paul Baxter;Rachel Wood;Tony Belpaeme

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom;University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom;University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In the development of companion robots capable of any-depth, long-term interaction, social scenarios enable exploration of the robot's capacity to engage a human interactant. These scenarios are typically constrained to structured task-based interactions, to enable the quantification of results for the comparison of differing experimental conditions. This paper introduces a hardware setup to facilitate and mediate human-robot social interaction, simplifying the robot control task while enabling an equalised degree of environmental manipulation for the human and robot, but without implicitly imposing an a priori interaction structure.