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A Modular Interface Design to Indicate a Robot’s Social Capabilities

Authors:
Frank Hegel

Keywords: Social Robots, Industrial Design, Human Factors

Abstract:
This paper presents an intersection of human-like appearance, product design, and information design in order to systematically manipulate a robot’s conceptual user interface design. The social robot ‘Flobi’ appears as an iconic cartoon-like character to mediate between users and application scenarios. Flobi’s interface design consist of three visual dimensions to choreograph user expectations of the robot’s capabilities, traits, and competences. First, the robot has dynamic facial features to display various emotional expressions. Second, the structural head design consist of exchangeable modular parts which are magnetically connected. Through the modular design the visual features of Flobi (e.g., hairstyle, facial features) can be altered easily in order to create various characters. Third, different clothing will prospectively be used to trigger the robot’s social roles. All three dimensions of visual features are highly likely to have an effect on the evaluation of Flobi’s traits and capabilities.

Pages: 426 to 432

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013