HCC-SGER: Social and Moral Interaction Patterns with a Personified Robot

一种类型的机器人已经开始从科幻小说的页面转移到研究实验室，甚至进入整个社会。这些机器人以不同的方式和不同的程度，拥有一个角色，具有适应性和自主性，可以交流、学习、使用自然线索和自我组织。这种“人格化”机器人将成为人们日常生活的一部分，这构成了这项研究的重点，将探索一种新的设计方法，该方法建立在PI术语“交互模式”的概念上。通过交互模式，PI意味着人类和机器人之间社会交互的基本特征的表征，足够抽象地指定，使得在给定不同类型的机器人、目的和使用上下文的情况下，可以唯一地实现该模式的许多不同的实例化。当我们被介绍给一个新的人时，就会发生人与人之间互动模式的一个简单例子。在西方社会，我们经常握手，打招呼，交换姓名，也许还会聊一聊天气。在其他文化中，人们可能会相互鞠躬，或敬礼问候。我们可以把这一普遍的社会活动称为“介绍”，其目的是为了促进进一步的社会互动。虽然引言从来不会以完全相同的方式进行两次，但活动是有结构的，并遵循一个可识别的模式。PI认为，这种模式只是许多可以用来帮助构建人与机器人交互的模式之一。在目前的项目中，PI将产生50-75个社会和道德互动模式。他将指定一种设计交互模式的方法(部分借鉴于描述人与人之间交互和人与自然交互中成功交互模式的特征)，将阐明交互模式抽象和具体化之间的最佳表征水平，将展示单个模式的多个实例化(以强调模式不是僵硬的模具，而是产生大量不同的实例化)，将在技术上使用实际的机器人实现这些模式的序列，自主地或(更多地)通过“绿野仙踪？技术，将建立一套用于验证交互模式的指导原则，最后将开始验证几个顺序模式。这些模式的技术实施和开始验证将使用来自日本先进电信研究所(ATR)的人形机器人Robovie。更广泛的影响：如果PI的方法被证明是成功的，然后被其他实验室采用，它将重塑人-机器人交互(HRI)研究社区的现有格局。此外，在不久的将来，公众很可能会对将人格化机器人引入现代社会提出严重的担忧；这项研究将提供一个积极主动的设计议程，认识到合理的社会关切，并展示我们如何才能“正确地处理”机器人。

A genre of robots has begun to move from the pages of science fiction to the research laboratories, and even into society at large. These robots, in various ways and to varying degrees, have a persona, are adaptive and autonomous, and can communicate, learn, use natural cues, and self organize. Such "personified" robots, which will become part of people's everyday lives, form the focus of this research wherein a new approach to their design will be explored that builds on a concept the PI terms "interaction patterns." By an interaction pattern the PI means characterizations of essential features of social interaction between humans and robots, specified abstractly enough such that many different instantiations of the pattern can be uniquely realized given different types of robots, purposes, and contexts of use. A simple example of an interaction pattern between humans takes place when we are introduced to a new person. In Western society, we often shake hands, say "hi," exchange our names, and perhaps engage in a little chit-chat about the weather. In other cultures, people might bow to one another, or offer a namaste greeting. We can call this universal social activity an "Introduction" and its purpose is to facilitate further social interaction. While the Introduction is never enacted exactly the same way twice, the activity is structured and follows a recognizable pattern. The PI argues that this pattern is but one of many that can be used to help structure human-robot interaction. In the current project, the PI will generate between 50-75 social and moral interaction patterns. He will specify a methodology for designing interaction patterns (which, in part, draws from characterizing successful patterns of interaction in human-human interaction and human-nature interaction), will articulate the optimal levels of characterization between abstraction and concretization for interaction patterns, will show multiple instantiations of individual patterns (to highlight that patterns are not rigid molds but engender a multitude of varied instantiations), will implement technically a sequence of these patterns with an actual robot, either autonomously or (more often) through a "wizard-of-oz? technique, will establish a beginning set of guidelines for validating interaction patterns, and finally will begin to validate a handful of sequenced patterns. The technical implementation and beginning validation of the patterns will occur using the humanoid robot Robovie from Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) in Japan. Broader Impacts: If the PI's approach proves successful, and is then taken up by other laboratories, it will reshape the existing landscape in the human-robot interaction (HRI) research community. Furthermore, it is likely in the near future that the public will raise serious concerns about the introduction of personified robots into modern society; this research will provide a proactive design agenda that recognizes the legitimate societal concerns and shows how we can "do it right" with robots.