Universal Design of Robots

In the future, social robots will likely be part of people's lives. Yet, if robots are to be used everywhere, the robots need to be usable by everyone. This requires an expanded examination of accessibility and universal design for interaction with robots.

What is required to make a robot universally designed? One would need to consider the context and think about how people are to interact with it.

Although one can turn to standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), these standards may be insufficient for the robot’s interactions in the real world. There are also multiple systems that the robot interacts or are used as ways of interacting with a robot. These also need to be examined.

An earlier project has created a method of evaluating the accessibility of robots, but there are several ways the method could be refined or improved. This includes better incorporating the user's perspective and ways of capturing the different ways a robot can be used in a context.

It would also be interesting barriers to accessibility in different contexts and robots.

Emneord: human-robot interaction, universal design
Publisert 26. sep. 2022 20:19 - Sist endret 9. okt. 2023 08:57

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