The Needfinding Machine

Martelaro, Nikolas; Ju, Wendy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94659-7_4

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“…Past efforts to develop low-cost social robotic platforms include EMAR V4 [31], Huggable [32], Dragonbot [33], TOFU [34], YOLO [20], and Romibo [35]. Costumizable robots' examples are Robot Diaries [38] (later on called Arts & Bots [37]) and Artbotics [39].…”

Section: Customizable Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

Alves‐Oliveira

Bavier

Malandkar

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The social robotics market is appealing yet challenging. Though social robots are built few remain on the market for long. Many reasons account for their short lifespan with costs and contextspecificity ranking high amount them. In this work, we designed, fabricated, and developed FLEXI, a social robot embodiment kit that enabled unlimited customization, making it applicable for a broad range of use cases. The hardware and software of FLEXI were entirely developed by this research team from scratch. FLEXI includes a rich set of materials and attachment pieces to allow for a diverse range of hardware customizations that ensure the embodiment is appropriate for specific customer/researcher projects. It also includes an open-source end-user programming interface to lower the barrier of robotics access to interdisciplinary teams that populate the field of Human-Robot Interaction. We present an iterative development of this cost-effective kit through the lenses of case studies, conceptual research, and soft deployment of FLEXI in three application scenarios: community-support, mental health, and education. Additionally, we provide in openaccess the full list of materials and a tutorial to fabricate FLEXI, making it accessible to any maker space, research lab, or workshop space interested in working with or learning about social robots.

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Section: Customizable Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

Alves‐Oliveira

Bavier

Malandkar

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…These artifacts provide a rich social and technological context where researchers can distil new challenges and opportunities. We see the Design Fiction method as one that is closely related to scenarios [20] and personas [25], both of which are conventional tools for understanding the needs of interaction and system design in HCI research [97,107].…”

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Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars

Linder

Hunter

McLemore

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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We present a design fiction, which is set in the near future as significant Mars habitation begins. Our goal in creating this fiction is to address current work-life issues on Earth and Mars in the future. With shelter-in-place measures, established norms of productivity and relaxation have been shaken. The fiction creates an opportunity to explore boundaries between work and life, which are changing with shelter-in-place and will continue to change. Our work includes two primary artifacts: (1) a propaganda recruitment poster and (2) a fictional narrative account. The former paints the work-life on Mars as heroic, fulfilling, and fun. The latter provides a contrast that depicts the lived experience of early Mars inhabitants. Our statement draws from our design fiction in order to reflect on the structure of work, stress identification and management, family and work-family communication, and the role of automation.

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“…Methodologies such as Wizard of Oz prototyping are ideal for examining experiences of machine learning (Browne, 2019). Such prototyping methodologies allow examining human needs, behavior, interactions, experience, and cognition in situ (e.g., Martelaro & Ju, 2017a;Norman & Draper, 1986). Examining the emerging interaction, behavior, and needs allows assessing the impact on people.…”

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“…The approach allows identifying the underlying drivers of people's motivation as described by Maslow (1987) in the use of designed systems such as AI. Martelaro & Ju (2017a, 2017b used a Wizard of Oz prototype to find needs when interacting with the AI system in real-world contexts. The need-design relationship reveals moral implications in AI.…”

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Human-centered AI: The role of Human-centered Design Research in the development of AI

Auernhammer¹

2020

Proceedings of DRS

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Artificial Intelligence has the tremendous potential to produce progress and innovation in society. Designing AI for people has been expressed as essential for societal well-being and the common good. However, human-centered is often used generically without any commitment to a philosophy or overarching approach. This paper outlines different philosophical perspectives and several Human-centered Design approaches and discusses their contribution to the development of Artificial Intelligence. The paper argues that humanistic design research should play a vital role in the pan-disciplinary collaboration with technologists and policymakers to mitigate the impact of AI. Ultimately, Human-centered Artificial Intelligence incorporates involving people and designing Artificial Intelligence systems for people through a genuine human-centered philosophy and approach.

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The Needfinding Machine

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars

Human-centered AI: The role of Human-centered Design Research in the development of AI

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