Design and Evaluation of Everyday Interactive Robots is coming at 02/27/2018 - 10:00am
Rogers 226 Tue, 02/27/2018 - 10:00am Naomi Fitter Postdoctoral Scholar, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, University of Southern California Abstract: As robots appear in more everyday environments, they will have new opportunities to enhance the lives of the people around them. Despite this potential gain, modern robots lack many of the necessary skills to effectively interact with people. In particular, almost all robots lack the kinds of social touch capabilities that help human beings to learn about the world and connect with one another. My goal is to improve the social-physical human-robot interaction (spHRI) capabilities of robots in everyday environments to make them effective agents for supporting the communication, health, and learning of individuals. This talk covers the ways I have combined physical human-robot interaction and social robotics to help people understand robot capabilities, form connections with support robots, and feel socially embedded in a remote environment. In collaborative manufacturing settings, I aim to use spHRI to improve trust and performance in human-robot teamwork. Previously, I investigated ways that human-robot hand-clapping games could serve as an icebreaker activity in this type of collaboration. Using similar social touch abilities, I also designed and evaluated human-robot exercise games to help older adults stay active. Currently, I research telepresence robots for education. Such telepresence platforms might have the ability to preserve the educational and social experiences of children who miss extended amounts of school, but only if these systems improve in their ability to interact with remote environments. Overall, this interdisciplinary research combines principles from control theory, signal processing, machine learning, psychology, design, mechatronics, and other areas. My ongoing and future research will yield everyday robotic systems with the potential to help people live more productive, healthy, and enriching lives. Bio: Read more: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/design-and-evaluation-everyday-in... [1] [1] http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/design-and-evaluation-everyday-interactive-robots
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