HRI 2010 WORKSHOP: What do collaborations with the arts have to say about hRI?
Organizers
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Bill Smart is an associate professor of computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. He co-directs the Media and Machines Laboratory, which carries out research in mobile robotics, computer graphics, machine learning, computer vision, and human-computer interaction. His research focuses on human-robot interaction, machine learning applied to the control of complex non-linear dynamical systems, and brain-machine interfaces.
Smart holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Brown University, an M.Sc in Intelligent Robotics from Edinburgh University, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Dundee University. He is the co-founder of the ICRA Robot Challenge, past chair of the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition, and co-chair of the IEEE RAS Ad-Hoc Committee on Competitions and Challenges. His current research looks at how to take insights from the performing arts and apply them to human-robot interaction.
Annamaria Pileggi is an actor and director whose career has included collaborations with writers Theresa Rebeck and Barbara Damashek, directors Barney Simon of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and David Wheeler of the American and Trinity Repertory Theatres. Locally, she has directed at That Uppity Theatre, New Jewish, Onsite, Muddy Waters, Dramatic License, and HotCity theatres. In addition, she is on staff at HotCity as an Associate Director and Co-Producer of the theatre’s Greenhouse New Play Development Series. Pileggi is a Senior Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis and has been on the faculty of the Performing Arts Department since 1991. A three time recipient of the University’s College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Pileggi directs and teaches courses in Acting, Movement for the Actor, and Musical Theatre. She also serves as an administrator and acting instructor for the department’s Shakespeare Globe Program in London. Pileggi has an MFA in acting from Brandeis University.
Leila Takayama is a human-robot interaction research scientist at Willow Garage, a company that is developing open-source, non-military, personal robots. Coming from a human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and communication perspective, she focuses her research upon problems of embodied interaction between people and robots, factors that influence the perceived agency of robots, and how robots might become invisible-in-use. She completed her PhD at Stanford (2008), where she was advised by Professor Clifford Nass. During graduate school, she worked part-time at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), mentored by Dr. Stuart Card. Prior to Stanford, she completed her BAs in Cognitive Science and Psychology at UC Berkeley (2003). She is currently working with animators and sound designers to work out non-verbal behaviors and non-speech sounds for making robot behaviors more human-readable.
UPDATE: THE results of this workshop are published!
You can find the published technical report from this workshop at the Washington University, Department of Computer Science & Engineering technical reports online here.
what’s this WORKSHOP about?
This is a workshop at the HRI 2010 conference in Osaka (Japan) that will take place on March 2, 2010.
Human-Robot Interaction researchers are beginning to reach out to fields not traditionally associated with interaction research, such as the performing arts, cartooning, and animation. These collaborations offer the potential for novel insights about how to get robots and people to interact more effectively, but they also involve a number of unique challenges. The vocabulary, mindset, and focus of these fields are often radically different from that of HRI, making collaborations challenging to define and initiate. Many of these fields are in the arts, which have different sets of values and goals than one would find in the HRI research community. For example, the ways of evaluating the quality of one's work in art does not necessarily involve rigorous quantitative evaluations of the sort common in HRI; this can make the goal-setting and evaluation of such collaborations tricky.
This full-day workshop will offer a venue for HRI researchers and their collaborators from diverse fields including, but certainly not limited to, the performing arts, cartooning, animation, literature, and film, to report on their work, share insights about the collaboration process, and to help begin to define an exciting new area in HRI.
The workshop will include (1) a small number of invited talks and (2) oral presentations of selected submissions. Ample time will be allocated at the end of each presentation session for discussion and brainstorming. The program will also include a working session, with breakout groups, which will attempt to identify best practices from existing collaborations and fruitful directions for future collaborations.
What is the schedule for the workshop?
9:45-9:50 Welcome and Introduction
9:50-11:10 Robot Interactive Art
9:50-10:10 Fernaeus - “Disturbing, Fragile, Inexorable” - PDF
10:10-10:30 St-Onge - “Human Interacting with Flying Cubic Automata” - PDF
10:30-10:50 Velonaki - “Human-Robot Interaction in a Media Art Event” - PDF
10:50-11:10 Discussion
11:10-11:40 Morning Break
11:40-13:10 Collaborating with the Arts
11:40-12:00 Gray - “Expressive, Interactive Robots” - PDF
12:00-12:10 Mead - “Automated Caricature of Robot Expressions in HRI” - PDF
12:10-12:20 Kriz - “A Place for Fictional Robots in HRI Research?” - PDF
12:20-12:40 Pileggi & Smart
12:40-13:10 Discussion
13:10-14:10 Lunch Break
14:10-15:30 Robot Theater
14:10-14:30 Demers - “Machine Performers” - PDF
14:30-14:50 Murphy - “A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Flying Robots” - PDF
14:50-15:10 Park - “A Miniature Robot Musical Using Roboid Studio” - PDF
15:10-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break
16:00-16:10 Brainstorming Kick-off (Holmquist)
16:10-17:45 Brainstorming Session
17:45-18:00 Wrap-up
cFP (closed)
We invite you to submit either:
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1.Full papers (8 pages) about the results of collaborations between HRI and the arts format ...OR...
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2.Short position papers (2 pages) describing interesting possible collaborations between HRI and the arts
Submit your HRI2010 format paper by email to
with “[HRI 2010 WORKSHOP]” in the subject line
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submit full or short papers by: February 2, 2010, 5pm PST
Receive notification of acceptance by: February 9, 2010, 5pm PST
Submit final papers by: February 16, 2010, 5pm PST
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
All participants will be required to produce a poster of their submission for the poster session.
We will also explicitly solicit live demonstrations and audience-participation activities. Because we are targeting collaborations with the arts community, live demonstrations might be a more appropriate presentation format for several of these fields. For example, Smart collaborates with practitioners in the performing arts; a demonstration of a movement exercise might be an appropriate addition to the workshop schedule.
how will my submission be documented?
The papers and posters will be collected and published as a technical report from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. They will also be made available in electronic format on the workshop web site.
HOW CAN I GET MY OTHER QUESTIONS ANSWERED?
Email us with “[HRI 2010 WORKSHOP]” in the subject line
