Designing Robotic Intention Visualisation

This project has been withdrawn and rescoped to project 2.7.

People effectively coordinate (co-located) teamwork through various social approaches that make team members aware of what they are doing or intend to do. Collaborative robots (cobots) are being introduced to the workplace to enable tight integration of human and robotic work activities, such as assisting human workers with repetitive or strenuous physical tasks. But robots may behave autonomously or semi-autonomously, and this necessitates communication about the robot’s intentions.

Introducing complex, tightly integrated tools such as cobots not only raises questions about how to support work routines effectively but, more so, how to support the coordination of these work routines in mixed teams of humans and robots.

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