Abstract
In our personal spaces, we are increasingly surrounded by interactive, connected and engaging "things" that increasingly demand attention and convey a sense of continuous pace. This work showcases how things could be designed from a different perspective: seemingly aware, but intentionally non-engaging. IdleBot is a very furry robotic puppet that is waiting. Unlike many applications in social robotics, IdleBot has neither clear purpose, nor explicit functionality - it merely exists and waits. The subtleness of its interaction, consisting of mostly idle motions, is the starting point to investigate forms of interaction bordering non-interaction situated in a personal context. In two iterations, we designed a fully working interactive prototype that embodies different modes of waiting. The design of waiting behaviors is based on a prior observation study with 20 participants, whose waiting behavior was recorded for each one minute under the false pretense of having to wait for a "real" experiment to start. A Kinect device tracks people in close proximity and allows IdleBot to glance at them in serendipity. The video shows what happened when we released IdleBot into the wild.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Number of pages | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-5621-3 |
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Publication status | Published - 21 Apr 2018 |
Event | 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 Conference number: 36 http://chi2018.acm.org https://chi2018.acm.org/ |
Conference
Conference | 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 |
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Abbreviated title | CHI 2018 |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 21/04/18 → 26/04/18 |
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Keywords
- designing things, interaction design, social robots, user experience