Interaction Situation
The user is occupied with an activity that does not involve the robot. The robot is in a kind of „sleeping mode“ indicating that it is inactive and will neither execute any actions nor initiate any interactions in this state. The robot’s presence fades into the background for the user and it does not disturb her. Especially, the user needs to understand that the robot is not surveilling her and her actions in this state. However, some of its sensors are still actively recording and the robot can be „woken“ from this state by predefined triggers (e.g. a user request or context information such as time, weather or a certain user state).
This is the default pattern when the robot is not engaged in interaction with the user for a longer period of time, but not turned off either.
Solution
Let the robot express that:
- It is focused on internal processing through a body posture that is averted from the user and the room. (Inside Turn)
- Position the robot close to the wall of the room, in a reachable distance to the user, but out of her way (Passively Available).
- Its operation mode is set to <stand-by> by letting the status light pulsate. Only part of the robot’s sensors are active – make it visible that it is not surveilling the user (Operation mode standby)
Related patterns:
Needs: Passive Available AND Operation mode standby AND Inside Turn
Opposed patterns: all other composed patterns – two composed patterns can never be executed at the same time
