Concept: Romibo is a pet-like social robot designed for therapy, education and fun!
The Romibo Robot Project is a collaboration between robotics researchers and people like YOU in the user community. Together we are co-developing a therapeutic robot for children with physical and developmental disabilities. Romibo’s educational and fun features support robot therapy research while providing tandem value to the general public. Building Romibo and contributing your ideas and experiences will help to improve the lives of others.
Tags: assistive technology, build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, design research, developer, director, entrepreneur, inventor, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 3:05pm
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
Tags: design research, graduate research, HCI, research, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:35pm
Concept: A coffeepot that uses affective display to covey task status and state.
Tags: build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, research, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:48pm
