Sandry Eleanor, Gomez Randy, Nakamura Keisuke
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Honda Research Institute Japan, Wako, Japan.
Front Robot AI. 2021 Mar 1;8:577107. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.577107. eCollection 2021.
Haru is a social, affective robot designed to support a wide range of research into human-robot communication. This article analyses the design process for Haru beta, identifying how both visual and performing arts were an essential part of that process, contributing to ideas of Haru's communication as a science and as an art. Initially, the article examines how a modified form of Design Thinking shaped the work of the interdisciplinary development team-including animators, performers and sketch artists working alongside roboticists-to frame Haru's interaction style in line with sociopsychological and cybernetic-semiotic communication theory. From these perspectives on communication, the focus is on creating a robot that is persuasive and able to transmit precise information clearly. The article moves on to highlight two alternative perspectives on communication, based on phenomenological and sociocultural theories, from which such a robot can be further developed as a more flexible and dynamic communicative agent. The various theoretical perspectives introduced are brought together by considering communication across three elements: encounter, story and dance. Finally, the article explores the potential of Haru as a research platform for human-robot communication across various scenarios designed to investigate how to support long-term interactions between humans and robots in different contexts. In particular, it gives an overview of plans for humanities-based, qualitative research with Haru.
哈鲁是一款社交情感机器人，旨在支持对人机交流的广泛研究。本文分析了哈鲁β版的设计过程，确定视觉艺术和表演艺术如何成为该过程的重要组成部分，为将哈鲁的交流视为一门科学和一门艺术的理念做出贡献。最初，本文考察了一种经过改进的设计思维形式如何塑造跨学科开发团队的工作，该团队包括与机器人专家合作的动画师、表演者和素描艺术家，以根据社会心理和控制论 - 符号学交流理论来构建哈鲁的互动风格。从这些交流视角出发，重点是打造一个具有说服力且能够清晰传递精确信息的机器人。文章接着强调基于现象学和社会文化理论的两种交流替代视角，从这些视角出发，这样一个机器人可以进一步发展成为一个更灵活、更具动态性的交流主体。通过考虑跨越相遇、故事和舞蹈这三个元素的交流，将所引入的各种理论视角整合在一起。最后，本文探讨了哈鲁作为一个研究平台在各种场景下进行人机交流研究的潜力，这些场景旨在研究如何在不同情境下支持人类与机器人之间的长期互动。特别是，它概述了使用哈鲁进行基于人文学科的定性研究的计划。
