Designing Social Interactions with a Humorous Robot Photographer

This paper describes our efforts to explore the design space of social interactions for a robot portrait photographer. Our human-centered design process involved professional and amateur photographers to better understand the social dimensions of subject-photographer interactions. This exploration t...

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Published in:2020 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 233 - 241
Main Authors: Adamson, Timothy, Lyng-Olsen, C. Burton, Umstattd, Kendrick, Vázquez, Marynel
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 09.03.2020
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Collaboration
Design
Human-centered computing > Collaborative and social computing > Collaborative and social computing devices
Human-robot interaction
Humor
Interviews
Photography
Prototypes
Social computing
Space exploration
human-robot interaction
humor
photography
design
ISBN:1450367461, 9781450367462
ISSN:2167-2148
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Summary:This paper describes our efforts to explore the design space of social interactions for a robot portrait photographer. Our human-centered design process involved professional and amateur photographers to better understand the social dimensions of subject-photographer interactions. This exploration then guided our design of a robot photographer, which employs humor to elicit spontaneous smiles during photography events. In a laboratory evaluation of our robot prototype, we found that the majority of the subjects considered the robot's humor to be comical and appreciated it. More spontaneous smiles were elicited by the robot when it delivered humorous content to its subjects than when it was not humorous. Our findings provide insights for the design of future social robot photographers.
ISBN:1450367461
9781450367462
ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1145/3319502.3374809