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...ed PeopleBot TM robots have been carried out [6, 17, 19, 20]. Other researchers have also investigated similar HRI trials with human sized robots including Dario et al. [4], Severinson-Eklundh et al. =-=[16]-=-, Kanda et al. [9] and Hinds et al. [8]. Once the desired behaviour(s) for sociable robots capable of competent human-robot interactions are known, the challenge is then to incorporate the results int...

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...a variety of types of robots in order to determine which social features are most effective at making human robot interaction robot more efficient and useful to humans. The CERO robot assistant study =-=[21]-=-, the Robovie peer tutor robot trials with children [22], and trials involving children with autism interacting with a humanoid robot [23] are examples of the few published works which describe studie...

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...troduction Robots have been used in a variety of service, educational or therapeutic applications, some projects focussing on the robot’s functionalities, others on the social aspects, e.g. [1], [2], =-=[3]-=-. Increasingly, research addresses design implications for the desired end usergroup, be it adults, children, experts, or therapeutic client groups. Design specifications encompass a wide range of phy...

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...rm evaluations of how a single user, or a small group of users, interacts with an intervention tool [2]. One example is the study a single user’s experiences with a service robot in an office setting =-=[38]-=-. The study provided insights for interface design and common failure points for such a system. Behavior studies are used to show how a user’s behavior changes when a robot is present. Typically a beh...

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...ld, Herts. UK. Email: {S.N.Woods, M.L.Walters, K.L.Koay, K.Dautenhahn}@herts.ac.uk have also conducted similar HRI trials with human sized robots including Dario et al. [7], Severinson-Eklundh et al. =-=[8]-=-, Kanda et al. [9] and Hinds et al. [10]. However, most of these HRI trials to date typically are characterised by relatively small sample sizes and are highly exploratory. HRI studies in general are ...

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... to achievement of task oriented objectives, but equally important is the behaviour of the robot when it encounters people as part of its operations. It has been observed by Severinson-Eklundh et al. =-=[1]-=- that the the design of the interaction strategy of a service robot should be grounded on the understanding of the social context in which the robot is operating which include primary and secondary us...

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...gram a robot to solve new tasks and so adapt it to its own desires and action preferences. The fields of robot imitation, learning from demonstration [14, 2] and most generally social guided learning =-=[19, 5]-=- have addressed the problem of learning new and ill-posed tasks. In personal and service robots the level of autonomy required, and expected, by the user must take into account the capabilities of the...