Bridging HRI Theory and Practice

Bridging HRI Theory and Practice: Design Guidelines for Robot Communication in Dairy Farming

Cila, N. (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design)
Gonzalez Gonzalez, I. (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering)
Jacobs, Jan (Lely, Maassluis)
Rozendaal, M.C. (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design)

Industrial Design Engineering

2024

Using HRI theory to inform robot development is an important, but difficult, endeavor. This paper explores the relationship between HRI theory and HRI practice through a design project on the development of design guidelines for human-robot communication together with a dairy farming robot manufacturer. The design guidelines, a type of intermediate-level knowledge, were intended to enrich the specialized knowledge of the company on farming context with relevant academic knowledge. In this process, we identified that HRI theories were used as a frame, a tool, best practices, and a reference; while the HRI practice provided a context, a reference, and validation for the theories. Our intended contribution is to propose a means to facilitate exchanges both ways between HRI theory and practice and add to the emerging repertoire of designerly ways of producing knowledge in HRI.

Dairy farming
Design guidelines
Intermediate-level knowledge
Research-practice gap
Robot development

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d87848db-7017-4c23-93a8-d53a32017338

https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634991

IEEE

979-8-4007-0322-5

HRI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2024, 2024-03-11 → 2024-03-15, Boulder, United States

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2167-2148

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2024 N. Cila, I. Gonzalez Gonzalez, Jan Jacobs, M.C. Rozendaal