Design

Building better trust between humans and machines

MIT News 23 Jun 2016

MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....

Major debate on robots & society sets scene for #ERW2015 European Robotics Week

Adriana Hamacher 26 Nov 2015

A mouthwatering array of over 750 events has been taking place throughout Europe this week as the continent celebrates Robotics Week 2015. The festivities began with an eye-opening debate on "Robots a...

Steffi Paepcke on Robots, women and design: Opportunities abound

Open Source Robotics Foundation 29 Apr 2015

This piece was written by Steffi Paepcke as a precursor to the Silicon Valley Robotics panel titled “Women in Robotics: Challenge or Opportunity?” Let me get the basic statistics out of t...

In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)

Mark Stephen Meadows 07 Aug 2013

This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...

“A Paro walks into a club…” (or, Notes on the design of automated body language)

Mark Stephen Meadows 05 Jun 2013

This article discusses personality design and how proper natural language interface design includes body language. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots. It argues that psyc...

The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)

Mark Stephen Meadows 04 May 2013

This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...