Fake It to Make It: Exploratory Prototyping in HRI

摘要: Exploratory prototyping techniques are critical to devising new robot forms, actions, and behaviors, eliciting human responses designed interactive features, early in the design process. In this opinion piece, we establish contribution of exploratory field human-robot interaction, arguing research engaged exploration-rather than controlled experimentation-should be focused on flexibility rather specificity, possibility replicability, insights as incubated subjectively through designer dispassionately proven by statistical analysis. We draw literature HCI for examples published explorations academic venues, suggest how analogous contributions can valued evaluated HRI community. Lastly, present examine case studies three methods have used our own work: physical with human-in-the-loop control, video prototyping, virtual simulations.