A master thesis from Aalborg University
Tangible User Interface for Exploring Expressivity in Semi Autonomous Robots
Author(s)
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2014
Submitted on
2014-05-28
Pages
78 pages
Abstract
This project aims to explore the use of point lights and movement in autonomous robots to effectively communicate and express the internal state of the system. The project uses a tangible user interface platform to model contextual scenarios. Different expressive models are designed and evaluated iteratively. It is the idea that the use of expressivity in autonomous robots will allow robots to integrate better in a human robot interaction. The project describes the development of an autonomous robot with motor and light actuators used to prototype three different behaviours. The behaviours are evaluated by 13 test participants. The conclusion of this study rejects the null-hypothesis, and provides information of how gestures in robots may be more effective than light behaviours.
Keywords
TUI ; HCI ; HRI ; Expressivity ; Robot ; Artificial Inteligence
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