Day 9: (Tue Sep 23, Week 5) Guest Lecture: HRI Behavior Analysis Workshop

Notes for 2025-09-23.

Assignments

Due today: Exercise: Machine Vision. Please post results to Assignment 5 Shared Folder.

I’ll be reviewing your results before Thursday; we will then both discuss your work to date and additional techniques to fill in your understanding.

Administrative

Medium-term objectives:

  • week 5: design a medium-fidelity implementation

  • week 6:

  • week 7: field trials to evaluate concept

Agenda

Today the entire class will be devoted to a workshop developed by our guest lecturer, Dr. Pragathi Praveena.

  1. Trash Barrel Robot video analysis (45 minutes)

    1. Part 1: Setting up the scene. Quick analysis of the the context for the human-robot interaction so we understand who, what, when, where, and why.

    2. Part 2: Robot and human behaviors. Identifying the subtle sequence of actions involved in a human-robot interaction.

    3. Part 3: Reflection. Naming the specific physical behaviors which fulfill the purpose.

  2. Group Project analysis (60 minutes)

    1. Part 1: Setting up the scene. Identifying your own options for the interaction context.

    2. Part 2: Robot and human behaviors. Bodystorming physical actions constituting an interaction.

    3. Part 3: Reflection. Identifying concrete, physical behaviors to create an interaction.

Trash Barrel Robot Video

References

The worksheet handed out for todays activities: readings/day9-HRI-worksheet.pdf

The first part will use video of the trash barrel robot project published in conjunction with several papers:

  • [4] F. Bu, I. Mandel, W.-Y. Lee, and W. Ju, “Trash Barrel Robots in the City,” in Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, in HRI ’23. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Mar. 2023, pp. 875–877. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580206

  • [3] B. Brown, F. Bu, I. Mandel, and W. Ju, “Trash in Motion: Emergent Interactions with a Robotic Trashcan,” in Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, in CHI ’24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, May 2024, pp. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642610