Study on the Development of Human-Robot Interaction Assessment System for Robot Design

As robots are getting more important and personalize, the need for design in robot industry is increasing but not very many studies are done in design field. At the first part of this paper, the importance of design in robot industry is introduced. Fields in HRI (Human Robot Interaction) need to be studied which is an interdisciplinary study. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) are the disciplines which share same domain with HRI. Therefore, these areas are reviewed in this paper. In the field of robot design, appearance of the robot is an important issue in robot design but there are other factors that need to be considered in robot design field. Unlike product design, robot design needs to have a serious consideration for its dynamic behavior which is one of the most important robotic factors. For designers, it is hard to experience this robot’s dynamic behavior and in order to overcome this problem, robot simulated prototype is required. Robotic factors like its interactive behavior and characteristics can not be fully shown by idea sketch or other design methods like design scenario. There are limits for expressing robot’s dynamic and interactive behavior. Also other issues like tangible feed back from the robots are need to be shown clearly for designers in order to express their clear design idea. Therefore in this paper, interactive tangible robot prototype system is introduced. The main purpose of the research is to construct a robot prototyping system for robot designers. Robot’s behaviors and its characteristics can be designed from this robot prototyping system.