When using assistive systems, the consideration of individual and cultural meaning is crucial for the utility and acceptance of technology. Orientation, communication and interaction are rooted in perception and therefore…
Tag: Benjamin Stangl
On 12 and 13 December 2016, the second transdisciplinary conference „Technische Unterstützungssysteme, die die Menschen wirklich wollen“ took place at the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg. We received the award for…
Many thanks to everybody involved! 1000+ people visited our event and 256 interactions summed up to the public experiment of the first prototype of our Space-game. Two TV teams had a look…
Space-game, the first prototype at the European Robotics Week – Long Night of Robots when: Friday, 25th of November 2016, 4pm-12pm where: Gußhausstraße 30, 1040 Vienna Talk to robot Romeo.…
Robots will become as ubiquitous as computers and smartphones and thereby profoundly transform many aspects of our daily lives. As the psychologist Sherry Turkle frames it, we have reached the “robotic moment”, the moment where we are ready to delegate important interactions of human relationships to robots. That means, we let social robots be the teaching companions for the young and the caretakers for the old. But it is not so much a question of building robots sophisticated enough for our company but whether we are ready for their company.
Cultural differences and cross-cultural aspects are frequently addressed in HRI research, both as an explanation for interpreting study results [1] as well as an object of the study itself [2].…