Learning from robotic artefacts: A quest for strong concepts in Human-Robot Interaction

Nazli Cila, Cristina Zaga, Maria Luce Lupetti
2021 Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021  
This paper is a methodological replication of Barendregt et al. [11], who urged Child-Computer Interaction field to embrace Intermediate Level Knowledge as a meaningful and valid way of generating knowledge. We extend this epistemological gap to the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Currently, artefact-centered papers-papers that present the development of an artefact-seem to be one of the primary ways that the HRI field generates knowledge. In this paper, we made an analysis of all papers
more » ... d at the HRI Conference from 2006 to 2020. Our results indicate that the 41,2 % of the papers were artefact-centered; and the impact of them, measured in the number of citations, was significantly lower than other kinds of papers. We used 23 artefact-centered papers to formulate two strong concepts and investigate how the foundational design epistemology about intermediate-level knowledge and RtD can contribute to other design-related disciplines to produce useful and valuable knowledge. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms.
doi:10.1145/3461778.3462095 fatcat:p57xe5ddijbi7orotd7fxrgvg4