“Kid Space: Evolving mixed methods over the life of a project”
Sinem Aslan, Rebecca Chierichetti, John Sherry
Intel Corporation
Intel Labs researchers developed an end-to-end experience called “Kid Space”, which made heavy use of multimodal sensing to drive a room-sized, interactive experience for children. Our presentation will discuss how our UX approach evolved through five phases, from initial concept to eventual deployment, with lessons learned along the way.
“Using interviews and drawings to study Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and educational robotics in children”
Maria Blancas, Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Anna Muraand Paul F.M.J. Verschure
Synthetic Perceptive Emotive Cognitive Systems (SPECS) group,
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Pompeu Fabra University
Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
How do children experience their interaction with educational robots? Using qualitative methods including interviews and drawings we discovered that children prefer creative and inquiry-based activities with anthropomorphic yet machine-like and gender-lessrobots.These observations inform the design of future educational robots and educational HRI paradigms.
“Utilizing interviews and thematic analysis to uncover specifications for a companion robot”
Rachael Bevill Burns°, Hasti Seifi°*, Hyosang Lee°, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker°
°Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
* University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
We will share our experiences designing and conducting structured video-conferencing interviews with autism specialists and utilizing thematic analysis to create qualitative requirements and quantitative specifications for a touch-perceiving robot companion tailored for children with autism. We will also explain how we wrote about our qualitative approaches for a journal setting.
“Using qualitative research methods for evaluating urban robotic probes”
Marius Hoggenmueller
Design Lab, School of Architecture, Design and Planning University of Sydney
Robots are increasingly being released to our public spaces, however, mainly to complete mundane tasks. In my research, I’m following a Research-through-Design approach to explore alternative narratives around urban robots. I will present insights from evaluating urban robotic probes in the wild through observations, video logs and interviews.
“Bringing even more human in HRI with qualitative methods”
Prof An Jacobs & Shriley Elprama
imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In our talk, we will highlight the value of qualitative research and the potential insights it could bring to the field of HRI such as insights into: 1) social structures and cultural diversity; 2) context of use; 3) invisible users and (work) practices and 4) variation in sensemaking processes.
“Social Robots for Child and Family Care: Qualitative Methods for Adults and Children”
Anouk Neerincx
Department of Information and Computing Sciences Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Cynthia Breazeal, & Hae Won Park
MIT Media Lab
In this talk, we will discuss how to leverage design research in HRI through mixed method approaches, describing a co-design process with older adults. We explore the value of providing a diverse mixed method tools to generate robust design guidelines and of engaging in community-based qualitative research.
“Open-ended Questions for Studying Mind Perception”
Aleksandra Swiderska and Dennis Küster
Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland &
Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany
How do we imbue robots with mental capacities? We explored the use of open-ended questions in two experiments, and performed both automated text analysis and content analysis based on manual coding. We aimed to determine whether these free answers reflected the extent to which participants spontaneously anthropomorphised the robots.
“Leveraging Qualitative Usability Testing in An Agile Robot Application Development Process”
Vivienne Jia Zhong and Theresa Schmiedel
Institute for Information Systems, School of Business,
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
While most evaluations of robot applications are summative, we illustrate an approach that integrates user perspectives through formative usability testing during an agile development process of a robot application. The approach is particularly suitable for verifying the potential of real-world robot applications while ensuring the desired high level of usability.