CPATH CB: Social Robotics

该团队建议使用社交机器人作为一种机制，以提供振兴计算机科学（CS）教育。机器人是学生学习计算机科学关键概念、开始编程并获得即时反馈、学习硬件和软件以及两者之间相互作用的绝佳平台。机器人技术对学生、学者和普通大众都有广泛的吸引力。社交机器人是一种通过遵守附加在其角色上的社会规则与人类进行交互和交流的机器人。角色及其规则是通过社会来定义的。例如，机器人服务员必须遵守良好服务的既定规则。它应该是预期的，可靠的，最重要的是谨慎的。社交机器人必须意识到这些规则并遵守它们。社交机器人的发展有很多方面，除了传统的计算机科学和工程原理外，还需要借鉴设计、心理学、认知科学、传播学和哲学的元素，并与之协调一致。这个由多所学校组成的团队计划利用这一提议，在纽约州北部的首都地区建立一个社会机器人领域的利益相关者社区。除了计划中的定期会议和信息收集之外，他们还将在当地的公共博物馆举办四次公开研讨会，将利益相关者与学者、学生、行业代表和公众成员聚集在一起，共同制定一个社交机器人项目。该计划的中心目标是设计进入社会机器人课程的替代机制和路线，旨在使具有各种技能和兴趣的学生能够进行互动。Pull机制（吸引学生进入计算机科学专业）和Push机制（向其他专业传授关键概念）都是计划好的。该计划利用了首都地区学校和学院的合作，因为没有一所学校是提供这种教育的理想场所。这项提案的结果将是一个实施社会机器人项目的计划，该计划可以在地方和全国实施。

The Team proposes to use Social Robotics as a mechanism to deliver a revitalized Computer Science (CS) education. Robots are a fantastic platform for students to learn key CS concepts, begin to program and get immediate feedback, and to learn about both hardware and software, and the interplay between the two. Robotics has a widespread base of appeal to students, academics and the general public alike. A Social Robot is one that interacts and communicates with humans by following the social rules attached to its role. The role and its rules are defined through society. For example, a robotic waiter would have to comply with established rules of good service. It should be anticipating, reliable and most of all discreet. A social robot must be aware of these rules and comply with them. There are many aspects to the evolution of Social Robots, which need to draw on elements of Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Communication and Philosophy in addition to, and in harmony with, traditional Computer Science and Engineering principles. The multi-school team plans to use this proposal to build a community of stakeholders in Social Robotics in the Capital Region of upstate New York. On top of planned regular meetings, and the gathering and collection of information, they will hold four open workshops at a local public Museum, to bring together the stakeholders with academics, students, and representatives from industry and members of the public, to outline a program in Social Robotics. The central aim of the program is to design alternative mechanisms of entry into, and routes through, a Social Robotics curriculum designed to enable students with a wide variety of skills and interests to interact. Both Pull mechanisms, drawing students into a Computer Science program and Push mechanisms, to deliver key concepts in other majors are planned. This plan leverages the collaboration of schools and colleges in the Capital region, as no one school is ideally placed to deliver such an education. The outcome of this proposal will be a plan of implementing a program in Social robotics, which can be implemented both locally, and nationally.