Robots that work with and for people must be designed to adapt to the physical and social world. The work of our research group blends the disciplines of design, social psychology, and robotics to tackle these problems.
Robots that work with and for people must be designed not just to adapt to the physical world (the primary emphasis in traditional robotics) but also within the social world. Toward this end, our work has a distinct interdisciplinary character in its blend of the disciplines of design, social psychology, and robotics.
- Understand how people and robots will interact with one another in the context of the social world.
- Aid robotic technology development towards effective human-robot interaction.
- Advance dialogue on the appropriate and useful deployment of robots in work and home settings.