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Artists as HRI pioneers : A creative approach to developing novel interactions for living with robots
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
In this article we present a long-term, continuous human-robot cohabitation experiment, which involved two professional artists, whose artistic work explores the boundary between science and society. The artists lived in ...
Sharing spaces, sharing lives - The impact of robot mobility on user perception of a home companion robot
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
This paper examines the role of spatial behaviours in building human-robot relationships. A group of 8 participants, involved in a long-term HRI study, interacted with an artificial agent using different embodiments over ...
Companion robots for elderly people : Using theatre to investigate potential users' views
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
A theatre production of a play illustrating the functionality, social and ethical aspects of robots helping with aspects of elderly care was presented at a residential care home. The audience consisted of mainly elderly ...
My familiar robot companion : Preferences and perceptions of CHARLY, a companion humanoid autonomous robot for living with you
(Springer Nature, 2012)
This paper presents findings from a survey conducted with visitors to the My Familiar Companion exhibit, part of the HUMAN+ Exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The exhibit consisted of a humanoid robot, CHARLY ...
The Theatre methodology for facilitating discussion in human : Robot interaction on information disclosure in a home environment
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)
Our research is concerned with developing scenarios for robot home companions as part of the EU project LIREC. In this work, we employed a particular methodology to gain user feedback in early stages of robot prototyping: ...
Exploring human mental models of robots through explicitation interviews
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring how mental models of a mechanoid robot using dog-inspired affective cues behaviour emerges and impacts the evaluation of the robot after the viewing of a ...
Video prototyping of dog-inspired non-verbal affective communication for an appearance constrained robot
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
This paper presents results from a video human-robot interaction (VHRI) study in which participants viewed a video in which an appearance-constrained Pioneer robot used dog-inspired affective cues to communicate affinity ...
The Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale and reactions to robot behaviour in a live Human-Robot Interaction study
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2009-04-01)
This paper describes the use of the Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (NARS) to explain participants' evaluations of robot behaviour styles in a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) study. Twenty-eight participants interacted ...
A User study on visualization of agent migration between two companion robots
(2009)
In order to provide continuous user assistance in different physical situations and circumstances, it is desirable that an agent can maintain its identity as it migrates between different physical embodiments. A user study ...
Preferences and perceptions of robot appearance and embodiment in human-robot interaction trials
(2009)
Outcomes are presented from experiments on the effect of participants' individual preferences for robot appearance and height on their preferences towards and perceptions of live robots. Participants who expressed a ...