“playing robot”: An Interactive Sound Installation in Human-Robot Interaction Design for New Media Art

Abstract

In this study artistic human-robot interaction design is introduced as a means for scientific research and artistic investigations. It serves as a methodology for situated cognition integrating empirical methodology and computational modeling, and is exemplified by the installation playing robot. Its artistic purpose is to aid to create and explore robots as a new medium for art and entertainment. We discuss the use of finite state machines to organize robots’ behavioral reactions to sensor data, and give a brief outlook on structured observation as a potential method for data collection.