Sensemaking and Robots

Concept: Robots are complex and difficult to understand. It is important to take particular precautions in the design process to avoid rejection, confusion, discomfort and other ill effects. We advocate sensemaking as a holistic solution to the design of human-robot interaction. We describe sensemaking and enumerate a series of interface variables that can be applied to HRI. We explore one of the most important aspects, robotic motion, and apply this framework in the domain of motion. Our results indicate that the design of motion may not be as important as the design of form and or appearance for this particular robot platform

Role: Designed and conducted lab studies on human perception of a robot’s task status when the robot is outfitted with an on-board affective/ associated display.

Paper: Sensemaking in HRI

Tags: design research, graduate research, HCI, research, social robotics

Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:35pm