Paper Info
Title
Pop-up Robotics: Facilitating HRI in Public Spaces.
Abstract
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research in public spaces often encounters delays and restrictions due to several factors, including the need for sophisticated technology, regulatory approvals, and public or community support. To remedy these concerns, we suggest HRI can apply the core philosophy of Tactical Urbanism, a concept from urban planning, to catalyze HRI in public spaces, provide community feedback and information on the feasibility of future implementations of robots in the public, and also create social impact and forge connections with the community while spreading awareness about robots as a public resource. As a case study, we share tactics used and strategies followed to conduct a pop-up style study of 'A robotic mailbox to support and raise awareness about homelessness.' We discuss benefits and challenges of the pop-up approach and recommend using it to enable the social studies of HRI not only to match but to precede, the fast-paced technological advancement and deployment of robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3266037.3266125
UIST '18: The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Berlin Germany October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Research methods,Pop-up interventions,Tactical Urbanism,Robots in Public Spaces,Robots for Social Good
Software deployment,Social studies,Computer science,Knowledge management,Implementation,Human–computer interaction,Urban planning,Artificial intelligence,Tactical urbanism,Robot,Social impact,Robotics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5949-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Swapna Joshi111.02
Selma Sabanovic230244.66