Lessons Learned in Designing User-Configurable Modular Robotics

Lund, Henrik Hautop

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05582-4_24

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“…[2]), the robot designer (in this case the music composer) designs the primitive behaviours and the coordination scheme. And, as is the case with userguided behaviour based robotics [5], if non-expert users (e.g. live concert audience) are supposed to manipulate and become creative with the systems, it is crucial that the designer (music composer) creates primitives on a fairly high abstraction level that allows the non-expert user to understand and have positive feedback from the human-robot interaction within a very short time frame.…”

Section: Robomusicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remixing playware

Lund

Marti

Tittarelli

2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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In this paper, we describe the concept of remixing playware, which allows sampling and remixing of both physical and functional (e.g. music content) aspects of a system. Such remixing playware has a number of distinguished features which are explained in the paper: user-configurable modularity, which allows the user to interact and manipulate with samples; user-guided behavior-based system, which allows music compositions to emerge from the way performer interacts with the instruments that provide the primitive behaviours; intelligent sampling as the ability of creating samples that allow anybody to remix with the samples ensuring an engaging outcome. The paper exemplifies remixing playware with a variety of implementations in RoboMusic concerts, the virtual MusicTiles app, the physical MagicCubes, the physical dices in Peter Gabriel concerts, and the S'n'S system. These examples focus on music creation and performance, based upon the concept of RoboMusic, and it is argued that the concept of remixing playware extends to many other application areas of playware

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Section: Robomusicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several factors in the definition and implementation of these modules have consequences for the remixing potential of the system. These factors include the modules' granularity, autonomy, connectivity, affordance, transparency, and interaction [5].…”

Section: Remixingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remixing playware

Lund

Marti

Tittarelli

2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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“…On the other hand, the HCI literature provides surveys and design tools centered on the user. Their contribution are: (1) classification and evaluation methods [47,87,103,104], (2) benefits and challenges [2,38,84], (3) criteria for design [57,63,91], (4) how users perceive and interact with modular shape-changing UIs [51,60,74]. However, these tools mostly deal with the broader field of shape-changing UIs rather than focus on modular ones.…”

Section: Corpus Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is even more difficult for modular shape-changing UIs as modular robots provide large transformational capabilities, unlike other shape-changing UIs (e.g., [49]). Previous work encourage designers to (1) explore affordances through shape-change [118], interaction design and material design [63] and (2) to study how users perceive and interact with modular shape-changing UIs [50].…”

Section: Interactivity (Interaction)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Molecular HCI

Pruszko

Coutrix

Laurillau

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Shape-changing User Interfaces attract growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. Modular robotics offer a great opportunity for their implementation. However, the current theoretical and technical advances of modular robotics are fragmented and little centered on the user. To unify existing work and center future research on the user, we perform a systematic literature review enabling us to build a unifying space for the design of modular shape-changing user interfaces.Our aim is to bridge the gap between HCI and robotics. We relate properties of different domains and identify inconsistencies to structure the design space. Towards this aim, we conduct a thorough cross-disciplinary survey to propose: 1) a set of design properties at the scale of the interface (macro-scale) and at the scale of the modules (micro-scale) and 2) the impact of these properties on each other. This paper can be used to describe and compare existing modular shape-changing UIs and generate new design ideas by building upon knowledge from robotics and HCI.

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“…In fact these robots are not designed with usability purposes in mind but rather locomotion or construction. For example Lund [22] highlighted that several factors in the implementation of user-configurable robots have consequences for the user-configurability of the system. Consider for example the following scenario inspired by work on shape changing interactive devices [27][30] [39]:…”

Section: Design Rationalementioning

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Cubimorph: Designing modular interactive devices

Roudaut

Krusteva

McCoy³

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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We introduce Cubimorph, a modular interactive device that accommodates touchscreens on each of the six module faces, and that uses a hinge-mounted turntable mechanism to self-reconfigure in the user's hand. Cubimorph contributes toward the vision of programmable matter where interactive devices reconfigure in any shape that can be made out of a chain of cubes in order to fit a myriad of functionalities, e.g. a mobile phone shifting into a console when a user launches a game. We present a design rationale that exposes user requirements to consider when designing homogeneous modular interactive devices. We present our Cubimorph mechanical design, three prototypes demonstrating key aspects (turntable hinges, embedded touchscreens and miniaturization), and an adaptation of the probabilistic roadmap algorithm for the reconfiguration.

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Lessons Learned in Designing User-Configurable Modular Robotics

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Remixing playware

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