Lecture 1 - Hello, SIR

Question 1

What is a Social Robot?

Answer 1

A social robot is a robot that is able to engage in social interaction with a human user.

Question 2

Appearance and Robot Interaction Design

Answer 2

• Need to balance robot design with the user, task and context
• Social robots need to demonstrate social awareness, i.e., perceive content, interpret, and respond appropriately to verbal and nonverbal cues from humans

Question 3

What is the Uncanny Valley?

Answer 3

The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoid objects which imperfectly resemble actual human beings provoke uncanny or strangely familiar feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.

Question 4

What does PACT stand for?

Answer 4

• People, Stakeholders, Personas
• Activities, Scenarios, Specification
• Context
• Technologies, Technological Principles

Question 5

What are Personas?

Answer 5

A persona is a realistic description of typical user.

Description includes:

• persona name and photo
• a set of unique goals related to application
• user behavior, attitudes, activities and/or environment
• credible details that help designers see personas as real potential users for which they can deisgn

Question 6

Wny Personas?

Answer 6

• To help designer make design decisions

- To remind that real people will be interacting with the robot

Question 7

What are Scenarios?

Answer 7

A scenario is an informal narrative description (‘story’)

• Describes human tasks and activities in a story
• Uses the vocabulary and phrasing of users that can be understood by stakeholders
• A problem scenario is a story about current, existing activities
• A design scenario is a story about how a robot can be used

Question 8

Why Scenarios?

Answer 8

To help designer explore content, user needs and goals, requirements, and usability issues.

Question 9

What is Artiicial Intelligence?

Answer 9

A system that can sense, process information, and act.