Abstract
Robots are poised to enter our everyday environments such
as our homes and offices. These contexts present unique
human demands, including questions of the style and
personality of the robot's actions. Style-oriented
characteristics are difficult to define programmatically, and
as such, are often out of reach from the designers involved
in creating robotic technologies. This problem is
particularly prominent for a robot’s interactive behaviors,
those that must react accordingly to dynamic environments
and actions of people. In this paper, we present the concept
of programming robotic style by demonstration through the
use of broomsticks and tangibles, such that non-technical
designers can directly create the style of actions using their
existing skill sets. We developed a working system as a
proof-of-concept, and present two novel interfaces for
directly demonstrating the style of motions to robots. Our
current focus is on the style of a robot following a person,
but we envision that simple physical interfaces like ours can
be used by non-technical people to design the style of a
wide range of robotic behaviors.
Refereed
No
