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Is it possible to design robots of the future so that they can enhance people's creative endeavors? Forty-eight young adults were asked to produce their most creative ideas in a small Zen rock garden in a laboratory setting. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In one condition, the robot Robovie (through a Wizard of Oz interface) encouraged participants to generate creative...
This conceptual paper provides design guidelines to enhance the sociality of human-robot interaction. The paper draws on the Interaction Pattern Approach in HRI, which seeks to specify the underlying structures and functions of human interaction. We extend this approach by proposing that in the same way people effectively engage the social world with different personas in different contexts, so can...
Robots will increasingly take on roles in our social lives where they can cause humans harm. When robots do so, will people hold robots morally accountable? To investigate this question, 40 undergraduate students individually engaged in a 15-minute interaction with ATR's humanoid robot, Robovie. The interaction culminated in a situation where Robovie incorrectly assessed the participant's performance...
This paper discusses converging evidence to support the hypothesis that personified robots and other embodied personified computational systems may represent a new ontological category, where ontology refers to basic categories of being, and ways of distinguishing them.
In recent work, ??interaction patterns?? have been proposed as a means to characterize essential features of human-robot interaction. A problem arises, however, in knowing whether the interaction patterns generated are valid. The same problem arises when researchers in HRI propose other broad conceptualizations that seek to structure social interaction. In this paper, we address this general problem...
This study investigated whether a robotic dog might aid in the social development of children with autism. Eleven children diagnosed with autism (ages 5–8) interacted with the robotic dog AIBO and, during a different period within the same experimental session, a simple mechanical toy dog (Kasha), which had no ability to detect or respond to its physical or social environment. Results showed that,...
We propose that Christopher Alexander's idea of design patterns can benefit the emerging field of HRI. We first discuss four features of design patterns that appear particularly useful. For example, a pattern should be specified abstractly enough such that many different instantiations of the pattern can be uniquely realized in the solution to specific problems in context. Then, after describing our...
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