On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
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Abstract

How do we switch between "playing along" and treating robots as technical agents? We propose interaction breakdowns to help solve this "social artifact puzzle": Breaks cause changes from fluid interaction to explicit reasoning and interaction with the raw artifact. These changes are closely linked to understanding the technical architecture and could be used to design better human-robot interaction (HRI).

Authors

  • Britta Wrede
    Software Engineering for Cognitive Robots and Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany bwrede@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de.
  • Anna-Lisa Vollmer
    Medical Assistive Systems, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany anna-lisa.vollmer@uni-bielefeld.de.
  • Sören Krach
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Social Neuroscience Lab (SNL), Lübeck University, Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM), 23538 Lübeck, Germany soeren.krach@uni-luebeck.de.