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Tangible User Interface for Exploring Expressivity in Semi Autonomous Robots

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Term

4. term

Education

Medialogy, Master

Publication year

2014

Submitted on

Pages

78

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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