I-Corps: Context-Aware Interactive (CAI) Robotic Platform

I-Corps：情境感知交互式 (CAI) 机器人平台

• 批准号: 1834893
• 负责人: Amy LaViers
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834893&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Context; Aware; Interactive; CAI

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to bring more usable technology to elderly populations to help them age with greater independence. Specifically, existing in-home robots could assist a broader cohort of elderly users if the robots were easier to understand and use. This is an especially timely opportunity as the elderly population is quickly growing in the United States. Elderly users need a robot that can express many internal states through external features, especially in an intuitive and interactive way. Choreographers and theater artists recognize how to convey narrative through context (set), movement (choreography), and commands (dialogue), therefore bringing a special expertise beyond typical product design processes. Marrying this expertise with robotic hardware development has the potential to produce a significant transformation in how aging adults relate to and take advantage of technology in their homes. This I-Corps project aims to explore the commercial potential of a three-part design methodology that has been developed to layer robotic systems with greater expressiveness and understandable features. This method 1) creates systems with appropriate expressive bandwidth to communicate internal state to human viewers through motion profiles, 2) helps users understand how to interact with robotic systems through character-driven narrative, and 3) predicts affective responses to these systems, across multiple contexts. Initial results indicate that trust and acceptance of in-home technology can be facilitated with low-cost, simple hardware like LEDs, off-the-shelf servo motors, improved how-to literature, and context-based behavior, with existing, low-cost robot hardware. For example, something as simple as a heart rate monitor has opaque, hard to interpret monitors, confusing multiple-step procedures, and an ominous beeping. This novel approach adds a customizable expressive layer to an existing device like this, creates a character-driven narrative about how the device works, and uses theatrical context which may improve user adoption via priming.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为老年人带来更多可用的技术，帮助他们在更大的独立性下变老。 具体来说，如果现有的家用机器人更容易理解和使用，它们可以帮助更广泛的老年用户群体。 这是一个特别及时的机会，因为美国的老年人口正在迅速增长。老年用户需要一个能够通过外部特征表达许多内部状态的机器人，特别是以直观和交互的方式。编舞和戏剧艺术家认识到如何通过背景（布景），动作（编舞）和命令（对话）传达叙事，因此带来了超越典型产品设计过程的特殊专业知识。 将这种专业知识与机器人硬件开发相结合，有可能在老年人与家中技术的关系和利用方面产生重大转变。 这个I-Corps项目旨在探索三部分设计方法的商业潜力，该方法已被开发用于具有更高表现力和可理解功能的分层机器人系统。这种方法1）创建具有适当表达带宽的系统，通过运动轮廓将内部状态传达给人类观众，2）帮助用户了解如何通过角色驱动的叙事与机器人系统交互，以及3）预测在多种背景下对这些系统的情感反应。初步结果表明，信任和接受的家庭技术可以促进低成本，简单的硬件，如LED，现成的伺服电机，改进的操作文献，和基于上下文的行为，与现有的，低成本的机器人硬件。例如，像心率监测器这样简单的东西有不透明的，难以解释的监测器，混乱的多步程序，以及不祥的哔哔声。这种新颖的方法为现有的设备增加了一个可定制的表达层，创建了一个关于设备如何工作的角色驱动的叙述，并使用戏剧背景，这可能会通过启动来提高用户采用率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。