Purpose: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together HRI researchers and designers from across the world who are actively engaged – or would like to be – in coding behavioral and/or reasoning data in HRI. We’ll share methods from our respective laboratories, and discuss problems encountered and potential solutions. By the end of the workshop:
Deadline for Submission
(for Presenters): January 7, 2008 December 14, 2007
Submissions can be sent to Peter Kahn (pkahn@u.washington.edu), Takayuki Kanda (kanda@atr.jp), and Nathan Freier (freien@rpi.edu)
Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
University
of Washington, USA
Takayuki Kanda
Advanced
Telecommunications Research (ATR), Japan
Nathan G. Freier
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA
Rachel L. Severson
University
of Washington, USA
Hiroshi
Ishiguro
Advanced Telecommunications
Research (ATR) and Osaka University, Japan
As the field of human-robot interaction begins to mature, researchers and designers are recognizing the need for systematic, comprehensive, and theoretically-grounded methodologies for investigating people’s social interactions with robots. One attractive approach entails the collection of behavioral video data in naturalistic or experimental settings. Another attractive approach entails interviewing participants about their conceptions of human-robot interaction (e.g., during or immediately following an interaction with a specific robot). With behavioral video data and/or reasoning data in hand, the question then emerges: How does one code and analyze such data?
The workshop is divided into two main parts.
Morning. Our collaborative laboratories (from the University of Washington and ATR) will share in some depth the coding system we have developed for coding 90 children’s social and moral behavior with and reasoning about a humanoid robot (ATR’s Robovie). This coding manual builds from other systems we have developed and disseminated elsewhere as technical reports (Friedman, et al, 2005; Kahn et al., 2003, 2005, 2005). Key issues presented in the morning include:
We’ll have plenty of time for discussion of issues as they emerge.
Afternoon: Following a group lunch, we’ll then have up to 5 participants present for 20 minutes each (followed by 20 minutes of discussion after each presentation). Presenters will provide a brief overview of one of their HRI research projects (hopefully with some video data or interview data in hand), and then explicate three problems they encountered in coding the data, and then (if at all) how they sought to solve the problems. The 20 minute discussion periods will provide time for participants to discuss the nature of the problems and other possible solution strategies.
There will be two types of participation:
5 Presenters (in addition to the 5 organizers): Presenters will be actively involved in HRI research that involves behavioral and/or reasoning data. As noted above, each presenter will have 20 minutes to present an overview of one of their HRI research projects, and to present three problems encountered and possible solutions.
Other Workshop Participants: Participants will join in the workshop and participate in discussions. The prerequisite is simply an interest in the topic.
As noted above, there will be two types of participation: (1) workshop presenters, and (2) workshop participants. Submission guidelines differ depending on your interests in participating:
(1) Workshop Presenter: Send a one-page single-spaced summary of your HRI research project, and three possible coding problems encountered and possible solutions. Indicate whether you anticipate having some actual data to share (video clips or interview transcripts) that illustrate your issues at hand. Include an additional paragraph that summarizes your background in HRI. These submissions will be peer-reviewed. The deadline for submission is December 14, 2007.
(2) Workshop Participant: Send a one-paragraph summary of your background in HRI and interest in the workshop. Participants will be accepted on a first-come-first-admitted basis.
The workshop will take place March 12, 2008, at the HRI ’08 conference site, the beautiful Felix Meritis cultural center in central Amsterdam.
We plan to
publish proceedings of the workshop in the form of a technical report.
At this junction, the technical report will include the full coding
system for the UW-ATR study on Children’s Social and Moral Relationships
with a Humanoid Robot. We would also like to include full coding
systems from the other 5 presenters in the workshop. Together,
then, we would have created a vibrant initial repository of coding systems
for other researchers to draw upon. However, if not all of the
presenters have full systems, then we will include a written version
of their summary of their project and their 3 problems and solutions
presented during the workshop.
is Associate
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Associate Professor
in the Information School at the University of Washington. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
His publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development,
Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and
Journal of Systems Software, as well as in such proceedings as
CHI, Ubicomp, and Ro-Man. His 1999 book (MIT
Press) is titled The Human Relationship with Nature: Development
and Culture. His research projects – funded by the National
Science Foundation – focus on human interaction with nature and technological
systems, including (a) social and moral relationships with personified
robots, and (b) the psychological effects of digitized natural information.
Peter H. Kahn,
Jr.
Associate Professor
Department
of Psychology
Box 351525
University
of Washington
Seattle, WA
98195-1525
206-616-9395
pkahn@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu
is Senior Researcher
at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto,
Japan, in 2003. His publications have appeared in such journals as
Autonomous Robots, IEEE Intelligent Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
and Human-Computer interaction, as well as in such proceedings
as IJCAI, ICRA, IROS, HRI, Humanoids,
and Ro-Man. His current research interests include intelligent
robotics and human-robot interaction.
Takayuki Kanda
Senior research
scientist
ATR Intelligent
Robotics & Communication Labs.
2-2-2 Hikaridai,
Seikacho, Sorakugun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
Tel: +81 774
95 1424
Fax: +81 774
95 1408
kanda@atr.jp
http://www.irc.atr.jp/~kanda/
is an Assistant
Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his
Ph.D. in Information Science from the Information School at the University
of Washington. His research focuses on children’s social and
moral interactions with personified technologies, including graphical
avatars and social robots. One of his questions is how to use
such psychological findings to improve from an ethical standpoint the
design of technology.
Nathan G. Freier
Department
of Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
110 8th
St., Sage 4508
Troy, NY 12180-3590
518-276-6467
freien@rpi.edu
http://www.rpi.edu/~freien
is a doctoral
student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Washington.
Her research focuses on children’s conceptions of “other”, whether
the other is biological (e.g., animal or human) or computational (e.g.,
robotic). One of her questions is whether new ontological categories
are emerging for Homo sapiens that move beyond long-standing canonical
categories (e.g., between animate and inanimate).
Rachel
L. Severson
Department
of Psychology
Box 351525
University
of Washington
Seattle, WA
98195-1525
206-616-6986
raches@u.washington.edu
http://staff.washington.edu
is Professor
in the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University and
Visiting Group Leader at ATR, Japan. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng.
in Computer Science from Yamanashi University, Japan in 1986 and 1988,
respectively, and his D.Eng in Systems Engineering from Osaka University,
Japan in 1991. His research interests include distributed vision systems,
robotics, and android science.
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Department of Adaptive Machine
Systems
Osaka University
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita
Osaka 565-0871 Japan
ishiguro@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp