Designing for Public HRI: Reflections on an Iterative Robot Sound and Motion Design ProcessShow others and affiliations
2026 (English)In: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026, p. 31-35Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Mobile robots must behave intelligibly to be acceptable in public spaces. Designing social navigation algorithms for delivery robots requires different areas of expertise. The paper reports on an interdisciplinary collaboration between two ethnomethodological conversation analysts, a human factors psychologist, and two motion planning engineers. Based on video recordings of a robot moving among people, the team developed and implemented different sound and movement designs, which were iteratively tested in real-world deployments. This work contributes insights on how interdisciplinary collaboration can be facilitated in the area of social robot navigation and an iterative process for designing robot sound and movement grounded in real-world observations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2026. p. 31-35
Series
HRI Companion ’26
Keywords [en]
ethnomethodology, motion planning, public robot, robot deployment, social robot navigation, sonic interaction design, sound design
National Category
Robotics and automation Human Computer Interaction Languages and Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-223962DOI: 10.1145/3776734.3794349Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105036946690ISBN: 9798400723216 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-223962DiVA, id: diva2:2060203
Conference
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, March 16 - 19, 2026
Funder
Linköpings universitet, Styrkeområde Transport2026-05-152026-05-152026-05-21