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What is Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics
“HRI is the science of studying people’s behavior and attitudes towards robots in relationship to the physical, technological and interactive features of the robots, with the goal to develop robots that facilitate the emergence of human-robot interactions that are at the same time efficient (according to original requirements of their envisaged area of use), but are also acceptable to people, and meet the social and emotional needs of their individual users as well as respecting human values” ( Dautenhahn, 2013 ).
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User Experience of Socially Interactive Robots: Its Role and Relevance
B. Alenljung (University of Skövde, Sweden) and J. Lindblom (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7278-9.ch017
Abstract
Socially interactive robots are expected to have an increasing importance in everyday life for a growing number of people, but negative user experience (UX) can entail reluctance to use robots. Positive user experience underpins proliferation of socially interactive robots. Therefore, it is essential for robot developers to put serious efforts to attain social robots that the users experience as positive. In current human-robot interaction (HRI) research, user experience is reckoned to be important and is used as an argument for stating that something is positive. However, the notion of user experience is noticeably often taken for granted and is neither described nor problematized. By recognizing the complexity of user experience the intended contributions can be even more valuable. Another trend in HRI research is to focus on user experience evaluation and examination of user experience. The current research paths of user experience of socially interactive robots are not enough. This chapter suggests that additional research directions are needed in order accomplish long-term, wide-spread success of socially interactive robots.
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Chapter 61
Human-Robot Interaction
As social robotics becomes more and more cross-disciplinary beyond engineering and computer science and draws more and more on the knowledge and resources from Human-Computer Interaction, the term Human-Robot Interaction slowly substitutes the term “social robotics.” HRI as a cross-disciplinary field lies between robotics, AI, cognitive science, (developmental) psychology, interaction design, biology and especially ethology. It would be desirable to have pedagogy, sociology, philosophy and science and technology studies as part of the field. HRI investigates in the question of the human perception of robot systems, of user friendliness, on the question of design (anthropomorph, zoomorph or functional robots) as well as ethical considerations (Kiesler & Hinds, 2004; Rogers & Murphy, 2004). Relevant conferences and publications are the Proceedings of the Humanoid Robots Conference, the RO-MAN Workshop and recently the Human-Robot Interaction Workshop. The journal Interaction Studies. Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems is a new founded journal edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Harold Gouzoules covering issues in HRI, Artificial Life and biologically-inspired robotics.
Published in Chapter: Human-Robot Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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Chapter 61
Human-Robot Interaction
As social robotics becomes more and more cross-disciplinary beyond engineering and computer science and draws more and more on the knowledge and resources from Human-Computer Interaction, the term Human-Robot Interaction slowly substitutes the term “social robotics.” HRI as a cross-disciplinary field lies between robotics, AI, cognitive science, (developmental) psychology, interaction design, biology and especially ethology. It would be desirable to have pedagogy, sociology, philosophy and science and technology studies as part of the field. HRI investigates in the question of the human perception of robot systems, of user friendliness, on the question of design (anthropomorph, zoomorph or functional robots) as well as ethical considerations (Kiesler & Hinds, 2004; Rogers & Murphy, 2004). Relevant conferences and publications are the Proceedings of the Humanoid Robots Conference, the RO-MAN Workshop and recently the Human-Robot Interaction Workshop. The journal Interaction Studies. Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems is a new founded journal edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Harold Gouzoules covering issues in HRI, Artificial Life and biologically-inspired robotics.
Published in Chapter: Human-Robot Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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Chapter 7
Socially Embodied Human-Robot Interaction: Addressing Human Emotions with Theories of Embodied Cognition
HRI is the science of studying people’s behavior and attitudes towards robots in relationship to the physical, technological and interactive features of the robots, with the goal to develop robots that facilitate the emergence of human-robot interactions that are at the same time efficient (according to original requirements of their envisaged area of use), but are also acceptable to people, and meet the social and emotional needs of their individual users as well as respecting human values ( Dautenhahn, 2013 ).
Published in Chapter: Socially Embodied Human-Robot Interaction: Addressing Human Emotions with Theories of Embodied Cognition; From: Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics
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Facial Expression Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis: Overcoming the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence with the Art of the Soluble
Is the study of interactions between people (users) and robots. HRI is multidisciplinary with contributions from the fields of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, and several social sciences.
Published in Chapter: Facial Expression Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis: Overcoming the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence with the Art of the Soluble; From: Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 7
Major Metrics, Concerns, and Assessment Strategy for Mobility Assistive Devices
HRI is related to the study of people’s behavior and attitudes towards robots in relationship to the physical, technological and interactive features of the robots. The main goal of HRI is to develop efficient and acceptable robots. Societal and emotional needs of their end-users should also be taken into account in the design process, according to HRI.
Published in Chapter: Major Metrics, Concerns, and Assessment Strategy for Mobility Assistive Devices; From: Quality Assurance in the Era of Individualized Medicine
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