Model-Driven Interaction Design for Social Robots

Abstract

Robotic software development frameworks lack a possibility to present, validate and generate qualitative complex human robot interactions and robot developers are mostly left with unclear informal project specifications. The development of a human-robot interaction is a complex task and involves different experts, for example, the need for human-robot interaction (HRI) specialists, who know about the psychological impact of the robot’s movements during the interaction in order to design the best possible user experience. In this paper, we present a new project that aims to provide exactly this. Focusing on the interaction flow and movements of a robot for human-robot interactions we aim to provide a set of modelling languages for human-robot interaction which serves as a common, more formal, discussion point between the different stakeholders. This is a new project and the main topics of this publication are the scenario description, the analysis of the different stakeholders, our experience as robot application developers for our partner, as well as the future work we plan to achieve.