Title
The RUBI project: a progress report
Abstract
The goal of the RUBI project is to accelerate progress in the development of social robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of a scientific agenda, research methods, formal approaches, software, and hardware. The project is based on the idea that progress will go hand-in-hand with the emergence of a new scientific discipline that focuses on understanding the organization of adaptive behavior in real-time within the environments in which organisms operate. As such, the RUBI project emphasizes the process of design by immersion, i.e., embedding scientists, engineers and robots in everyday life environments so as to have these environments shape the hardware, software, and scientific questions as early as possible in the development process. The focus of the project so far has been on social robots that interact with 18 to 24 month old toddlers as part of their daily activities at the Early Childhood Education Center at the University of California, San Diego. In this document we present an overall assessment of the lessons and progress through year two of the project.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1228716.1228761
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
development process,speech,real time,robots,algorithm design and analysis,social robots,social robot,adaptive behavior,field study,social interaction,field studies
Social robot,Everyday life,Activities of daily living,Simulation,Computer science,Software,Early childhood education,Robot,Adaptive behavior
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.57
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier R. Movellan11853150.44
Fumihide Tanaka213916.33
Ian R. Fasel365640.60
Cynthia Taylor4141.57
Paul Ruvolo5212.48
Micah Eckhardt68911.86