Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46667
| Title: | Affordable avatar control system for personal robots |
| Author: | Lee, Jun Ki, S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Other Contributors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. |
| Advisor: | Cynthia L. Breazeal. |
| Department: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | Social robots (personal robots) emphasize individualized social interaction and communication with people. To maximize communication capacity of a personal robot, designers make it more anthropomorphic (or zoomorphic), and people tend to interact more naturally with such robots. However, adapting anthropomorphism (or zoomorphism) in social robots makes morphology of a robot more complex; thus, it becomes harder to control robots with existing interfaces. The Huggable is a robotic Teddy bear platform developed by the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. It has its specific purpose in healthcare, elderly care, education, and family communication. It is important that a user can successfully convey the meaningful context in a dialogue via the robot's puppeteering interface. I investigate relevant technologies to develop a robotic puppetry system for a zoomorphic personal robot and develop three different puppeteering interfaces to control the robot: the website interface, wearable interface, and sympathetic interface. The wearable interface was examined through a performance test and the web interface was examined through a user study. |
| Description: |
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-79). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46667 |
| Keywords: | Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences. |
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