Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support

This paper describes our approach to designing, developing behaviors for, and exploring the use of, a robotic footstool, which we named the mechanical ottoman. By approaching unsuspecting participants and attempting to get them to place their feet on the footstool, and then later attempting to break...

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Published in:	Hri '15: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction USB Stick pp. 11 - 18
Main Authors:	Sirkin, David, Mok, Brian, Yang, Stephen, Ju, Wendy
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	ACM 01.03.2015
Subjects:	Embodied Design Improvisation Floors Handover Laboratory Experiment Metaphors Prototypes Robot kinematics Social Attribution Task analysis Wizard of Oz
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