CURTAIN and Time to Compile: A Demonstration of an Experimental Testbed for Human-Robot Interaction

Cuan, Catie; Pakrasi, Ishaan; Berl, Erin; LaViers, Amy

doi:10.1109/roman.2018.8525520

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“…and RQ3 ("Are "soft" sounds a more appropriate match for a soft embodiment?"). The article thus extends prior work that has studied or evaluated robotic artworks and robot prototypes made by artists through empirical HRI experiments and prior work on leveraging the embodied meaning-making skills of artists to design robots (Demers, 2014;Vlachos et al, 2016Vlachos et al, , 2018Levillain et al, 2017;LaViers et al, 2018;Cuan et al, 2018a;Cuan et al, 2018b;Gemeinboeck and Saunders, 2018;Gemeinboeck and Saunders, 2019;Herath et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 56%

The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

Jørgensen

Christiansen

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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In this article, we report on research and creative practice that explores the aesthetic interplay between movement and sound for soft robotics. Our inquiry seeks to interrogate what sound designs might be aesthetically engaging and appropriate for soft robotic movement in a social human-robot interaction setting. We present the design of a soft sound-producing robot, SONŌ, made of pliable and expandable silicone and three sound designs made for this robot. The article comprises an articulation of the underlying design process and results from two empirical interaction experiments (N = 66, N = 60) conducted to evaluate the sound designs. The sound designs did not have statistically significant effects on people’s perception of the social attributes of two different soft robots. Qualitative results, however, indicate that people’s interpretations of the sound designs depend on robot type.

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The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

Jørgensen

Christiansen

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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“…However, only some papers compared the efficacy and utility benefits of the robots, mainly using the other robot as an alternative to the NAO or vice versa. Although children prefer NAO, they find easier to understand the gestures of a taller R3 (Kose et al, 2014) and rate Baxter robot as more positive and acceptable than NAO (Cuan et al, 2018). NAO was reportedly used along with Aibo in gesture experiments (Andry et al, 2011), iCub in eliciting behaviors on humans (Anzalone et al, 2015), Wifibot to carry the NAO (Canal et al, 2016), Pepper in human head imitation (Cazzato et al, 2019), Turtelbot in providing elderly care (DiMaria et al, 2017), Robokind R25 in interviewing humans (Henkel et al, 2019), Reeti (Johal et al, 2014) in expressing different parenting styles, R3 (Kose et al, 2014) in performing sign language gestures, Palro and Gemini (Pan et al, 2013) in evaluating interaction styles, and PR2 in identifying preferred human-robot proxemics (Rajamohan et al, 2019).…”

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10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

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The evolving field of human-robot interaction (HRI) necessitates that we better understand how social robots operate and interact with humans. This scoping review provides an overview of about 300 research works focusing on the use of the NAO robot from 2010 to 2020. This study presents one of the most extensive and inclusive pieces of evidence on the deployment of the humanoid NAO robot and its global reach. Unlike most reviews, we provide both qualitative and quantitative results regarding how NAO is being used and what has been achieved so far. We analyzed a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions that provide multidimensional insights, such as general trends in terms of application, the robot capabilities, its input and output modalities of communication, and the human-robot interaction experiments that featured NAO (e.g. number and roles of participants, design, and the length of interaction). Lastly, we derive from the review some research gaps in current state-of-the-art and provide suggestions for the design of the next generation of social robots.

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“…Examples where the research point of view has been foregrounded include investigations of how bodily motion of dancers can generate motion for nonanthropormorphic artificial bodies directly as in Gemeinboeck and Saunders (2017). In addition, researchers have worked to formulate systematic, parallel data collection during performances featuring robots as in Cuan et al, (2018). Likewise, in the space of comedy, reactive algorithms that leverage active audience response, have been proposed as in Vilk and Fitter (2020).…”

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Babyface: Performance and Installation Art Exploring the Feminine Ideal in Gendered Machines

Ladenheim¹,

LaViers

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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Representations of gender in new technologies like the Siri, Pepper, and Sophia robotic assistants, as well as the commodification of features associated with gender on platforms like Instagram, inspire questions about how and whether robotic tools can have gender and what it means to people if they do. One possible response to this is through artistic creation of dance performance. This paper reports on one such project where, along the route to this inquiry, creation of machine augmentation – of both the performer and audience member – was necessary to communicate the artistic ideas grappled with therein. Thus, this article describes the presentation of Babyface, a machine-augmented, participatory contemporary dance performance. This work is a reaction to feminized tropes in popular media and modern technology, and establishes a parallel between the ways that women and machines are talked about, treated, and – in the case of machines – designed to look and behave. This paper extends prior reports on the creation of this piece and its accompanying devices to describe extensions with audience member participation, and reflect on the responses of these audience members. These fabricated elements alongside the actions of the performer and a soundscape that quotes statements made by real “female” robots create an otherwordly, sad cyborg character that causes viewers to question their assumptions about and pressures on the feminine ideal.

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CURTAIN and Time to Compile: A Demonstration of an Experimental Testbed for Human-Robot Interaction

Cited by 13 publications

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The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction

10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

Babyface: Performance and Installation Art Exploring the Feminine Ideal in Gendered Machines

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