Day 4: (Thu Sep 4, Week 2) Precedent Review

Notes for 2025-09-04.

New Assignments

New assignment, due Tuesday: please read the following papers and be prepared to discuss them in class.

  1. [23] D. Sirkin, B. Mok, S. Yang, and W. Ju, “Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support,” in 2015 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Mar. 2015, pp. 11–18. Accessed: Aug. 22, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8520640

  2. [22] E. Short, J. Hart, M. Vu, and B. Scassellati, “No fair‼ An interaction with a cheating robot,” in 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Mar. 2010, pp. 219–226. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2010.5453193.

  3. [8] E. Dula, A. Rosero, and E. Phillips, “Identifying Dark Patterns in Social Robot Behavior,” in 2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), Apr. 2023, pp. 7–12. doi: 10.1109/SIEDS58326.2023.10137912.

Note: I created a new RCP-F25 Resources Folder with copies of the papers.

On Tuesday, September 23 we will have a guest lecture on HRI. This reading and following discussion will begin our preparation.

Administrative

  1. Please remember: if you can’t make any of the usual EH&S fire extinguisher training sessions to qualify for laser access, IDeATe is hosting two locally, no sign-up required:

    • Tue, Sep 9, 2:30 PM in HL A4 Near (near vending machines)

    • Wed, Sep 10, 10:00 AM in HL 106C (Studio B in library lobby)

  2. The first FriDeATe (social free food) event will be Friday, Sep 12 5-6PM in the basement open area.

Agenda

Precedent work discussions (see Assignment 1 Shared Folder). Each person will get roughly 9 minutes. Let’s please focus on the key prompts:

  • How would we characterize the specific machine-human interaction?

  • How are gesture and movement used to create deception?

  • Is there a principle we can borrow for our work?

Please note: there is no reason for you to have laptops or phones available today, please stow all electronic devices. If you need to take notes, please use paper.