The Art of Gate-Crashing Bringing HRI into users' homes

Summary, in English

Special purpose service robots have already entered the market and their users homes. Also the idea of the general purpose service robot or personal robot companion is increasingly discussed and investigated. To probe human-robot interaction with a mobile robot in arbitrary domestic settings, we conducted a study in eight different homes. Based on previous results from laboratory studies we identified particular interaction situations which should be studied thoroughly in real home settings. Based upon the collected sensory data from the robot we found that the different environments influenced the spatial management observable during our subjects' interaction with the robot. We also validated empirically that the concept of spatial prompting can aid spatial management and communication, and assume this concept to be helpful for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) design. In this article we report on our exploratory field study and our findings regarding, in particular, the spatial management observed during show episodes and movement through narrow passages.

• Author: Helge Huttenrauch; Elin Anna Topp; Kerstin Severinson Eklundh
• Department/s: Department of Computer Science; Robotics and Semantic Systems
• Publishing year: 2009
• Language: English
• Pages: 274-297
• Publication/Series: Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.10.3.02hut
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Topic: Computer Science
• Keywords: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); Mapping (HAM); Human Augmented; Robot Field Trial; COGNIRON; Domestic Service Robotics; Spatial Management; Spatial Prompting
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1572-0373