The Snackbot: Documenting the design of a robot for long-term Human-Robot Interaction

Author

Lee, Min Kyung ; Forlizzi, Jodi ; Rybski, Paul E. ; Crabbe, Frederick ; Chung, Wayne ; Finkle, Josh ; Glaser, Eric ; Kiesler, Sara

Author_Institution

HCI Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 March 2009

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

14

Abstract

We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as a research platform for long-term Human-Robot Interaction. Our design process, which occurred over 24 months, is documented as a contribution for others in HRI who may be developing social robots that offer services. We describe the phases of the design project, and the design decisions and tradeoffs that led to the current version of the robot.

Keywords

human-robot interaction; mobile robots; service robots; HRI; Snackbot design; design decision; design tradeoff; long-term human-robot interaction; robot design documentation; snack delivery; social robots; university building; Buildings; Context; Educational robots; Humans; Robot sensing systems; Speech; Social robot; design process; holistic design; interaction design;

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

6256098