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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: ...
A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic study
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic (HRP) study was performed using a newly developed Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a robot to measure and control the approach distances to the human participants. The main findings ...
Theatre as a Discussion Tool in Human-Robot Interaction Experiments : A Pilot Study
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
In the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), a novel experimental methodology is presented for carrying out studies which uses a theatrical presentation with an actor interacting and cooperating with robots in realistic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...