Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents

We encounter and interact with robotic agents every day when withdrawing cash from ATMs, driving cars with anti-lock brakes, and tuning our thermostats. In the moment of those interactions, we behave in ways that do not necessarily align with our belief that these are just plain machines. Through a combination of controlled experiments and field studies, this talk will examine how people actually interact with (and through) robotic agents. From these studies, we will draw out directions for explorations into the largely uncharted design spaces of human-robot interactions and robotic telepresence.

Speaker: Leila Takayama, Willow Garage