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How can we establish a shared "interaction language" for robots - independent of morphology and context of use?
Robot behavior patterns as part of the NIKA project
he NIKA project was established in 2018 to explore ways to improve human-robot interaction, with the goal to make everyday communication with social robots pleasant and easy to understand. We quickly discovered that each robot shows different behavior during the interaction and users have to get used to new interaction strategies every time they encounter a new robot. Therefore, we started to look for a way to create standard interaction strategies for social robots, that can be used by robots of different morphologies and in different application areas the idea for the Robot Behavior Pattern Wiki was born!
Based on empirical studies and an extensive review of existing research and design practices, we developed design recommendations for expressive robot behaviors and documented them as Patterns to make them easier for you to access and use for your own robot interaction design.
Let’s unite and design social robots together that people love to interact with!
Pattern Development Process
From use cases to reusable robot behaviors in three steps
Analysis
- identify recurrent interaction steps of the robot
- specifiy communication goals
Creation
- collect and review scientific insights and best practices to express the communication goal
- specify multimodal robot behavior
Evaluation
- prototype robot behavior
- test with users
- iteratively refine robt behavior
Pattern Development Process
From use cases to reusable robot behaviors in three steps
How will people live and use technology in the future? Asking this and similar questions, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO apply their findings in practice to achieve concrete results. Our experts shape the interaction between humans, technology and organization with a view to the whole, keeping each customer’s specific needs in mind.
In the User Experience team, we develop new methods and approaches for creating positive interaction experiences with technology. In the NIKA project, we developed visions how people will interact with robots in the future. The Robot Behavior Pattern Wiki was build to share our knowledge with you and help to shape the development of pleasant, comprehensible and acceptable social robots. Let’s start the next chapter of human-robot interaction now – and use patterns!
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We are also curious to know how you used the patterns and happy to receive your suggestions for new patterns.