Social Robots and the Production of Space: Exploring the Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Human-Robot Interaction

社交机器人与空间生产：探索人机交互的社会空间维度

• 批准号: 2121387
• 负责人: David Feil-Seifer
• 金额: $ 39.81万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Robots; Production; Space; Exploring

This project investigates long-term human-robot interaction outside of controlled laboratory settings to better understand how the introduction of robots and the development of socially-aware behaviors work to transform the spaces of everyday life, including how spaces are planned and managed, used, and experienced. Focusing on tour-guiding robots in two museums, the research will produce nuanced insights into the challenges and opportunities that arise as social robots are integrated into new spaces to better inform future design, planning, and decision-making. It brings together researchers from human geography, robotics, and art to think beyond disciplinary boundaries about the possible futures of human-robot co-existence, sociality, and collaboration. Broader impacts of the project will include increased accessibility and engagement at two partner museums, interdisciplinary research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students, a short video series about the current state of robotic technology to be offered as a free educational resource, and public art exhibitions reflecting on human-robot interactions. This project will be of interest to scholars of Science and Technology Studies, Human Robotics Interaction (HRI), and human geography as well as museum administrators, educators and the general public.This interdisciplinary project brings together Science and Technology Studies, Human Robotics Interaction (HRI), and human geography to explore the production of social space through emerging forms of HRI. The project broadly asks: How does the deployment of social robots influence the production of social space—including the functions, meanings, practices, and experiences of particular spaces? The project is based on long-term ethnographic observation of the development and deployment of tour-guiding robots in an art museum and an earth science museum. A social roboticist will develop a socially-aware navigation system to add nuance to the robots’ socio-spatial behavior. A digital artist will produce digital representations of the interactions that take place in the museum, using the robot’s own sensor data and other forms of motion capture. A human geographer will conduct interviews with museum visitors and staff as well as ethnographic observation of the tour-guiding robots and of the roboticists as they develop the navigation system. They will produce an ethnographic analysis of the robots’ roles in the organization of the museums, everyday practices of museum staff and visitors, and the differential experiences of the museum space. The intellectual merits of the project consist of contributions at the intersections of STS, robotics, and human geography examining the value of ethnographic research for HRI, the development of socially-aware navigation systems, the value of a socio-spatial analytic for understanding emerging forms of robotics, and the role of robots within evolving digital geographies. This project is jointly funded by the Science and Technology Studies program in SBE and Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program in EHR.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.

该项目研究了受控实验室环境之外的长期人机交互，以更好地了解机器人的引入和社会意识行为的发展如何改变日常生活的空间，包括如何规划和管理，使用和体验空间。该研究将重点关注两个博物馆中的导游机器人，并将对社交机器人融入新空间所带来的挑战和机遇产生微妙的见解，以更好地为未来的设计，规划和决策提供信息。它汇集了来自人文地理学，机器人学和艺术的研究人员，超越学科界限思考人类与机器人共存，社会性和协作的可能未来。该项目的更广泛影响将包括增加两个合作博物馆的可访问性和参与度，为本科生和研究生提供跨学科研究机会，作为免费教育资源提供关于机器人技术现状的短视频系列，以及反映人类与机器人互动的公共艺术展览。该项目将吸引科技研究、人机交互（HRI）、人文地理学、博物馆管理者、教育工作者和公众的兴趣。该跨学科项目将科技研究、人机交互（HRI）和人文地理学结合在一起，探索通过新兴的HRI形式产生社会空间。该项目广泛地问：社交机器人的部署如何影响社交空间的产生，包括特定空间的功能、意义、实践和体验？该项目基于对艺术博物馆和地球科学博物馆导游机器人的开发和部署的长期人种学观察。一位社会机器人学家将开发一个社会意识导航系统，为机器人的社会空间行为增加细微差别。数字艺术家将使用机器人自己的传感器数据和其他形式的动作捕捉来制作博物馆中发生的互动的数字表示。人类地理学家将与博物馆游客和工作人员进行访谈，并对导游机器人和开发导航系统的机器人专家进行人种学观察。他们将对机器人在博物馆组织中的作用、博物馆工作人员和游客的日常做法以及博物馆空间的差异体验进行人种学分析。该项目的智力价值包括STS，机器人和人文地理学交叉点的贡献，研究人类学研究对HRI的价值，社会意识导航系统的发展，社会空间分析对理解新兴形式的机器人的价值，以及机器人在不断发展的数字地理中的作用。该项目由SBE的科学和技术研究项目和EHR的推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）项目共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Comparison of Vehicle-To-Bicyclist and Vehicle-To-Pedestrian Communication Feedback Module: A Study on Increasing Legibility, Public Acceptance and Trust

车对自行车和车对行人通信反馈模块的比较：关于提高易读性、公众接受度和信任度的研究

• DOI: 10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900748
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN
• 作者: Schmidt-Wolf, Melanie;Feil-Seifer, David
• 通讯作者: Feil-Seifer, David

Advancing Socially-Aware Navigation for Public Spaces

推进公共空间的社会意识导航

• DOI: 10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900653
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN
• 作者: Salek Shahrezaie, Roya;Manalo, Bethany N.;Brantley, Aaron G.;Lynch, Casey R.;Feil-Seifer, David
• 通讯作者: Feil-Seifer, David