Title :
Quadrotor or blimp? Noise and appearance considerations in designing social aerial robot
Author :
Chun Fui Liew ; Yairi, Takehisa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Aerial robots offer a novel HRI platform thanks to their flying capabilities. However, existing aerial robots are designed from functional point of view and do not take social factors such as noise and appearance issues into serious consideration. Compared to quadrotor (noisier but higher speed), we investigated whether blimp (quieter but slower speed) is a better platform for social aerial robot. We formed hypotheses based on findings from physiology and psychology studies and examined our ideas with responses collected from online survey and interaction experiment.
Keywords :
autonomous aerial vehicles; human-robot interaction; HRI platform; blimp; physiology studies; psychology studies; quadrotor; social aerial robot design; social factors; Educational institutions; Noise; Noise level; Physiology; Psychology; Robots; Rotors; Unmanned aerial vehicle; aerial robot; animal-like; appearance; human factor; interaction; noise; safety; social robot;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3099-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
DOI :
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483562
