ROBOT@CWE 2006-2009

European Specific Targeted Research Project ROBOT@CWE

Gender-sensitive interaction with social robots
  • 3-year project, started in 2006, under contract FP6-IST-034002
  • involving 7 universities and 2 industrial partners.
  • Project collaborator; PhD thesis project

The main objective of this project was to research and demonstrate integrative concepts of advanced robotic systems, to be seen as collaborative agents, in various environments working together with humans. We integrated collaborative robotic systems as active agents operated through various control paradigms within working environment clusters. ROBOT@CWE designed suitable architectures and technologies to achieve this goal. A major aspect of the project was human-centred design, especially the assessment of usability, social acceptance, user experience, and societal impact of humanoid robots.

Related Publications

Weiss, A., Bernhaupt, R., and Tscheligi, M. The USUS evaluation framework for user-centered HRI. In New Frontiers in HRI, K. Dautenhahn and J. Saunders (eds.), John Benjamins, 2012.

Weiss, A., Igelsböck, J., Wurhofer, D., and Tscheligi, M. Looking forward to a “Robotic Society”?  – Imaginations of Future Human-Robot Relationships. Special issue on the Human Robot Personal Relationship Conference in the International Journal of Social Robotics, 3, 2, pp. 111-123, (2011).

Weiss, A., Buchner, R., Pierro, P., Igelsböck, J., Balaguer, C., and Tscheligi, M. User perception of usability aspects in indirect HRI – A chain of translations. In RO-MAN 2010: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2010), pp. 574–580.

Weiss, A., Förster, F., Wurhofer, D., and Tscheligi, M. Development of human-robot interaction models by means of a cognitive walkthrough approach. In AISB2010: Proceedings of the Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (2010), pp. 128–135.

Weiss, A., Igelsböck, J., Tscheligi, M., Bauer, A., Kühnlenz, K., Wollherr, D., and Buss, M. Robots asking for directions – the willingness of passers-by to support robots. In HRI ’10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (2010), pp. 23-30. Nominated for Best Paper Award.

Weiss, A., Wurhofer, D., Bernhaupt, R., Altmaninger, M., and Tscheligi, M. A methodological adaptation for heuristic evaluation of HRI. In RO-MAN 2010: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2010), pp. 1–6. Nominated for Best Paper Award.

Weiss, A., Bernhaupt, R., Lankes, M., and Tscheligi, M. The USUS evaluation framework for Human-Robot Interaction. In AISB2009: Proceedings of the Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (2009), pp. 158–165.

Weiss, A., Bernhaupt, R., Schwaiger, D., Altmaninger, M., Buchner, R., and Tscheligi, M. User experience evaluation with a wizard of oz approach: Technical and methodological considerations. In Humanoids2009: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoids Robotics (2009), pp. 303–308.

Weiss, A., Bernhaupt, R., Tscheligi, M., and Yoshida, E. Addressing user experience and societal impact in a user study with a humanoid robot. In AISB2009: Proceedings of the Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (2009), pp. 150–157.

Weiss, A., Igelsböck, J., Calinon, S., Billard, A., and Tscheligi, M. Teaching a humanoid: A user study on learning by demonstration with HOAP-3. In Ro-Man2009: Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2009), pp. 147–152.

Weiss, A., Igelsböck, J., Wurhofer, D., and Tscheligi, M. Looking forward to a “Robotic Society”?  – Imaginations of Future Human-Robot Relationships. In HRPR2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human-Robot Personal Relationships (2009).

Weiss, A., Wurhofer, D., Buchner, R., Tscheligi, M., Blasi, L., and Plebani, M. Development of a teleoperator interface for humanoid robots by the means of heuristic evaluation technique. In TAROS2009: Proceedings of the 10th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (2009), pp. 236–241.