Incidental Encounters with Robots. A Field Study and Some Directions

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Mobile robots will likely soon be part of our urban public environments, yet little is known about how human-robot encounters play out in complex and highly dynamic social settings. Our paper reports on a field study that included more than three hundred ‘incidental’ human-robot encounters in a public outdoor space. Using an ethnographic approach informed by ethnomethodology, we applied breaching experiments and membership categorization analysis to reveal how Incidentally Co-present Persons (InCoPs) interact with and make sense of robots in an urban environment. In this talk, I will introduce our approach, and encourage research trajectories and projects to embark on that extend our conceptual tool box. This both in terms of the development of more “light-weight” protocols for HRI, as well as for conducting thoughtful “in the wild” research that accepts the situated complexity of public space.
Periode14 nov. 2022
BegivenhedstitelHumans at the Centre of HRI: International Symposium
BegivenhedstypeKonference
Konferencenummer1
PlaceringGrenoble, FrankrigVis på kort