Context-Awareness for Social Robots

Abstract

In the present work, we provide a short literature review of three different ways of approaching the topics of context and context-awareness and relate these to developments in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and social robotics. We distinguish an engineering approach to context-awareness, the study of social context in human-centred design, and a view of context as a cognitive component in interaction. We propose a revised definition of context to capture these three views and discuss implications.

A Hermeneutical Approach to Provide Robots with Socially Adaptive Perception

“…This hermeneutical circle may be seen as a contextualisation process where the interpretative direction is a context-dependent perception, whereas the incremental direction is the characterisation and learning of context, a process that shows how context-awareness, especially in social interactions [19], is never static. Since we deal with socially adaptive perception, we also need to remark on at least two distinct architectural levels of contextualisation.…”