MAWARI: An interactive social interface

In this paper, we propose a MAWARI-based social interface as an interactive social medium to broadcast the information to users. The interface consists of three creatures (MAWARIs) and is designed with minimalism designing concepts. MAWARI is a small scale robot that has only body gestures to express (or interact) its attractive social cues. The participant´s role is reduced to that of a bystander when the interface is of a passive social state. In this context, the user does not need to participate in the conversation but still gains information without exerting effort (i.e., less conversational workload).