Collaborative Research: HCC: Small: Robot-Rooms: Giving Form to Domestic Activity, On the Go

合作研究：HCC：小型：机器人房间：为旅途中的家庭活动提供形式

• 批准号: 2221126
• 负责人: Ian Walker
• 金额: $ 26.51万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; HCC; Small; Robot

This project’s goal is to explore how robotic systems could become deeply integrated into people’s living and working spaces via “robot-rooms”. People are increasingly using technologies such as voice assistants and intelligent thermostats to customize and interact with spaces; the project team’s vision is to use robotic surface technologies they have developed to allow the room itself to change configuration and physically interact with occupants. This scenario may have benefits in a number of contexts: houses that adapt to facilitate family and individual interaction; workspaces that automatically adjust to an individual’s abilities and tasks to make work more comfortable and efficient; hotels and apartments that can adapt to many different visitors in a short time; museum exhibits that provide a wide variety of immersive experiences; and many others. The team plans to implement multiple prototypes to both explore these possibilities and to support outreach activities aimed at encouraging youth to enter robotics-related careers and to raise public awareness of the possibilities of robots in everyday life. In the project, the team will develop: (a) a design space of possibilities for what characterizes a robot-room, informed by human needs and wants; (b) a working prototype, and (c) a deep understanding of how inhabitants are supported and augmented by a robot-room, following real-world scenarios. Specifically, the investigators will conduct a user-experience study to investigate the experiences of participants interacting with prototypes representing two robot-room concepts using rapid prototyping techniques. The results of this study will form the basis for the development of a full-scale robot-room prototype. Ongoing interaction studies will iterate the robot-room prototype through cycles of evaluation with respect to its usability, performance, and efficacy. Ultimately, the robot-rooms investigated in this project will prove an impactful form of robotics as we enter a extend beyond current conceptions of productivity and play, defined by intimate collaborations between people and machines, and a novel paradigm for human-computer interaction in which the interaction is with a machine that physically envelops people.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.

该项目的目标是探索机器人系统如何通过“机器人房间”深入融入人们的生活和工作空间。人们越来越多地使用语音助手和智能恒温器等技术来定制空间并与之互动;项目团队的愿景是使用他们开发的机器人表面技术，让房间本身改变配置并与居住者进行物理互动。这种情况可能在许多情况下都有好处：房屋可以适应家庭和个人的互动;自动调整个人的能力和任务，使工作更加舒适和高效;酒店和公寓可以在短时间内适应许多不同的游客;博物馆展览提供各种沉浸式体验;等等。该团队计划实施多个原型，以探索这些可能性，并支持旨在鼓励年轻人进入机器人相关职业的外联活动，并提高公众对机器人在日常生活中的可能性的认识。在该项目中，该团队将开发：（a）根据人类的需求和愿望，为机器人房间的特点设计可能性空间;（B）工作原型;（c）深入了解居民如何通过机器人房间获得支持和增强，遵循真实世界的场景。具体而言，研究人员将进行用户体验研究，以调查参与者使用快速原型技术与代表两个机器人房间概念的原型进行交互的经验。这项研究的结果将形成一个全尺寸的机器人室原型的发展的基础。正在进行的交互研究将通过对机器人室原型的可用性、性能和有效性的评估循环来验证机器人室原型。最终，在这个项目中调查的机器人房间将被证明是一种有影响力的机器人形式，因为我们进入了一个超越目前生产力和游戏概念的延伸，由人与机器之间的亲密合作定义，一种新的人类模式一种计算机交互作用，其中交互作用是与一台在物理上与人交互的机器进行的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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。