Probo, a testbed for human robot interaction

Author

Goris, Kristof ; Saldien, Jelle ; Lefeber, Dirk

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 March 2009

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

254

Abstract

The concept of the huggable robot Probo is a result of the desire to improve the living conditions of children in hospital environment. These children need distraction and lots of information. In this paper the concept of a new social robot is presented. This robot can be used in hospitals, as a tele-interface for entertainment, communication and medical assistance. Besides the prototype of the real robot, a virtual model has been developed. With user friendly software these models can be used as an interface between an operator and a child. That way, Probo becomes a platform for experiments concerning human robot interaction with great opportunities in different disciplines.

Keywords

control engineering computing; hospitals; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; Probo; children; communication teleinterface; entertainment teleinterface; hospital environment; huggable robot; human robot interaction; medical assistance teleinterface; social robot; user friendly software; virtual model; Animals; Head; Pediatrics; Robots; Software; Solid modeling; User interfaces; human robot interaction; robotics; user interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

La Jolla, CA

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-60558-404-1

Type

conf

Filename

6256050