UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

       "Human-Robot Interaction in the Robot-Era Project:
  Multimodal Feedback, Dialog and Planning, and Social Presence"

                         Dr. Frank Broz
      (Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab, Plymouth University)

                     25 March 2015 (Wednesday)
                          1 pm -2 pm

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Seminar Room D102

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available





Abstract:

Robot-Era is a research project to design and evaluate a service
robotics approach to supporting independent and healthy ageing. A
team of heterogeneous robots supported by an ambient intelligence
infrastructure perform everyday tasks both inside and outside the
home. Because the target users for this system are elderly people who
may also be inexperienced technology users, making interaction with the
Robot-Era robots simple and intuitive to understand is critical. This
talk presents the design of the multimodal dialog and web-based interface
for the Robot-Era robots and explains how that design was motivated by
user requirements and preliminary testing with a prototype system. This
interface is also used as a test-bed to investigate specific issues
in human-robot interaction. I will present our experimentation on the
topics of how to integrate task execution feedback into robot dialog and
how interaction modality may influence users' perception of a robot's
social presence.


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