Innovative Experimental Methods in Human-Robot Interaction

By

Chinmay Wadgaonkar

C#

Gaming

Project Management

Research

Virtual Reality (VR)

Robotics

Communication

Documentation

A poster about my honors thesis that I presented at the Honors College Virtual Poster Fair on May 29th.

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Honors Thesis Poster	INTRODUCTION Previous work in social robots commonly makes use of user studies, online studies, and surveys. All of these are fairly controlled, in which there are independent variables which are explicitly varied, and there are dependent variables (measures) that are tracked in response to these variations. We continue this pattern, but instead of recruiting people to observe and interact with programmed robots in a traditional way, we investigate the use of innovative methods in two different experiments. The Actor Method: Act something out rather than explicitly encode it. The VR (Virtual Reality) as an HRI Design Tool: Visualize what a robot could look like rather than build it. Both of these are still user studies, but they are user studies with a twist applicable to early stage application design, in that they enable us to understand early what should be built and/or programmed.	Download