Designing Interactions with Robots

"This book is a treasure trove of insights for anyone considering emerging robotic systems in their context: in which they operate, are designed, and imagined. A stellar team of editors and authors offer a well-structured overview of established and emerging design methodologies, which challenged my perspectives on robotic capabilities, human-robot ecologies, and narratives. The second half of the book provides important essays that discuss challenges around robotic innovation and design. If you want to broaden your perspectives around what robotic capabilities are and should be: this rich book is for you."

- Prof. dr. ir. David Abbink, Delft University of Technology, Scientific Director of FRAIM, the Netherlands.

"This book presents robots not as a sci-fi trope but as a realm of design possibility. It will be instrumental to helping to reshape tomorrow's robots so that they help fulfill human needs and desires. It is rich with viewpoints and novel perspectives which help to equip designers with what they need to build ground-breaking robots."

- Wendy Ju, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, USA.

"Whenever we embark on the development of innovative robotic applications working closely with people in our daily lives, we're faced with the intricate challenge of crafting interactions for these state-of-the-art creations. In this complex endeavor, no single design choice reigns supreme. This book provides ideas about diverse design choices to explore and important aspects we should carefully think during the design process. I highly recommend this book for students and researchers who are interested in the design of such interactions."

-Takayuki Kanda, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan.

"Good design often goes unnoticed, but good design methods deserve our full attention. This book packs expertise from various fields into an exciting guide on how to design robots and their interaction with people, perfect for robot builders, students, and researchers."

-Tony Belpaeme, Ghent University, Belgium.