Making HRI accessible to everyone

through online videos.

Sandoval, Mubin, Brandstetter

Motivation• Attract students

• Explain our work to our grandparents

• Public benefit of research outreach

Robot Gangnam Style! (2012)

Eugene in Aotearoa (2014)

Introduction to HRI (2015)

Our experience

Outcomes

• Robot dances Gangnam Style ☺ ( 696,658 views in Youtube )

• Eugene in Aotearoa( < 1,000 views in Youtube and Vimeo )

• Introduction to HRI

( < 350 views in two Youtube channels ) ☹

Flaws in online videos in general

• Too long

• No promotion

• No way to measure their educative impact

Problems with MOOCs• Low rate of termination• Lecture fatigue• Poor design• Essentially are video records of a lecture!

Also• MTV and YouTube generation

Improvements to help HRI outreach• Reach out children• Inspired marketing • Attractive design• Emphasis in the human aspects of HRI• Accessible knowledge

• MOOCs ??

A Proposal for a

µMOOC in

HRI

A μMOOC in HRI should be:• Cool!• Engaging• Simple and easy• Short (2-3 minutes videos, 1-2 weeks)

• Free access• Local/Remote support

It is very important that people know about HRI

Conclusions

Let’s do it Now!

μMOOC HRI