Social RoboticsAllie Terrell

Grandparent’s University

Outline

Day 1

learn about social robotics

discuss social cues

hear about what we do

Day 2

social cue exercise

program robots with social cues

Introduction

name

where you’re from

why you’re excited to be here

what you hope to learn

What is a robot?

(semi-)autonomous

Needed Fields

computer science

human-robot interaction (HRI)

artificial intelligence (AI)

computer vision/graphics

mechanical engineering

psychology/sociology

linguistics

robot = “boring work”

social?

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Where have you encountered robots or

virtual agents? Were they social?

Social cues are signals that are given which

communicate a person’s thoughts or expected

actions.

Social cues are signals that are given which

communicate a person’s thoughts or expected

actions.

Social cues are signals that are given which

communicate a person’s thoughts or expected

actions.

Social cues are signals that are given which

communicate a person’s thoughts or expected

actions.

conversation

What other social cues can you think of? Get in groups to brainstorm...

How do we learn about social cues?

Ethnography!

Ethnographies

ethnos = to describe a people

designed around some situation

observation of a set of people

Social Cues Exercise

get in groups of 3 or 4

pick one speaker and one listener

remaining people are observers

observers will get instructions from me

How many times did people nod?

Speaker Listener

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storyboarding

What about the robots?

How will they look?

video

How will they act?

Future?

storyboarding...with robots

Tomorrow

tutorial on programming Mindstorms

discuss social cues to add to the robot

brainstorm and add other social cues

Questions?