Demo: Human-Robot Interaction Project

29 March 2018

Abstract. We would like to invite you to the final presentation for the Human-Robot Interaction Master Project organised by WTM. The presentation will take around 60 minutes where an overview of our project, the description for each module as well as the user study evaluation will be presented. After the presentation, project demonstration and an in-depth discussion will take place at F-235

As social robots are gaining ground into becoming part of our day to day life, it has become more important to establish design standards that ensure a robot's acceptance by humans. A great amount of research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), focuses on the design of a robot's appearance to project intelligence and animacy. In this work, we add an extra layer in our HRI design, by assigning a personality to a humanoid robot. We investigate how the personality influences the perception of the robot by reporting on the attributes of animacy, likability, and intelligence. In our experiment scenario, two different personality profiles (Socially engaged and Competitive) were created and were attributed to the humanoid Neuro Inspired COmpanion (NICO) robot. The personalities were evaluated by developing two systems allowing users to play an adversarial dice throwing game. Our results show that, when compared to the robot with a competitive personality, the one with the socially engaged personality was rated slightly higher in likability and animacy.

Thursday, 29 March 2018, 14:00, Room D-220, Informatikum

Speaker: All students from the 2018 semester master project.