Robot Vacuum Cleaner Personality and Behavior

Hendriks, Bram; Meerbeek, Bernt; Boess, Stella; Pauws, Steffen; Sonneveld, M. H.

doi:10.1007/s12369-010-0084-5

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“…Autonomous cars traverse our cities 31 , and ride-sharing algorithms alter the travel patterns of conventional vehicles 32 . Machines map our homes, respond to verbal commands 33 and perform regular household tasks 34 . Algorithms shape romantic matches for online dating services 35,36 .…”

Section: Ubiquity Of Algorithmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Machine behaviour

Rahwan

Cebrián

Obradovich

et al. 2019

Nature

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Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits and minimize their harms. Here we argue that this necessitates a broad scientific research agenda to study machine behaviour that incorporates and expands upon the discipline of computer science and includes insights from across the sciences. We first outline a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging field and then explore the technical, legal and institutional constraints on the study of machine behaviour.

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Section: Ubiquity Of Algorithmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Machine behaviour

Rahwan

Cebrián

Obradovich

et al. 2019

Nature

827

436

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“…These studies show that by expressing character traits, a robotic system can imply levels of social intelligence that increases the likelihood of adoption. [73], [74] tell us that it is natural for humans to try and extract information from robotic actions, subsequently attributing intentionality to robot movement characteristics and decision making. In [75], for instance, user study participants describe the movements of a robot vacuum cleaning system, the Roomba as "cute" or "pathetic", even though such a correlation may not have been intentioned.…”

Section: Prior Work In Expressive Roboticsmentioning

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Choreographic and Somatic Approaches for the Development of Expressive Robotic Systems

LaViers

Cuan²,

Heimerdinger

et al. 2018

Arts

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As robotic systems are moved out of factory work cells into human-facing environments questions of choreography become central to their design, placement, and application. With a human viewer or counterpart present, a system will automatically be interpreted within context, style of movement, and form factor by human beings as animate elements of their environment. The interpretation by this human counterpart is critical to the success of the system's integration: "knobs" on the system need to make sense to a human counterpart; an artificial agent should have a way of notifying a human counterpart of a change in system state, possibly through motion profiles; and the motion of a human counterpart may have important contextual clues for task completion. Thus, professional choreographers, dance practitioners, and movement analysts are critical to research in robotics. They have design methods for movement that align with human audience perception; they can help identify simplified features of movement that will effectively accomplish human-robot interaction goals; and they have detailed knowledge of the capacity of human movement. This article provides approaches employed by one research lab, specific impacts on technical and artistic projects within, and principles that may guide future such work. The background section reports on choreography, somatic perspectives, improvisation, the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System, and robotics. From this context methods including embodied exercises, writing prompts, and community building activities have been developed to facilitate interdisciplinary research. The results of this work are presented as an overview of a smattering of projects in areas like high-level motion planning, software development for rapid prototyping of movement, artistic output, and user studies that help understand how people interpret movement. Finally, guiding principles for other groups to adopt are posited.

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“…The probands said that while they liked the funny robot better, they performed their exercises better with the serious robot (Goetz and Kiesler 2002). Hendriks et al (2011) point out in a rather general way that users of vacuum cleaner robots desire a calm one that gives the impression of having the situation under control. It should demonstrate cooperative behavior, act according to routines, and be systematic.…”

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“…In particular, they bank on users being included, in the sense of a technology assessment that accompanies technological developments. Hendriks et al (2011) recommend first determining the wishes of the target group with regard to the demeanor of a service robot, translating this into behavior, and adjusting this until the desired result is reached by having it evaluated multiple times by potential users during the developmental phase. The way robots are judged by users depends strongly on the user’s needs.…”

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Service robots in the mirror of reflective research

Decker

2012

Poiesis Prax

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Service robotics has increasingly become the focus of reflective research on new technologies over the last decade. The current state of technology is characterized by prototypical robot systems developed for specific application scenarios outside factories. This has enabled context-based Science and Technology Studies and technology assessments of service robotic systems. This contribution describes the status quo of this reflective research as the starting point for interdisciplinary technology assessment (TA), taking account of TA studies and, in particular, of publications from the ethical and empirical social science perspective. Finally, based on this status quo, evaluation criteria for service robots are developed, which are relevant for further reflective research.

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Robot Vacuum Cleaner Personality and Behavior

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

Machine behaviour

Machine behaviour

Choreographic and Somatic Approaches for the Development of Expressive Robotic Systems

Service robots in the mirror of reflective research

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