scholarly journals Technology And Human Interaction: Research Contents

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessen Bredeson
Keyword(s):  
Human Interaction ◽  
Interaction Research

The experimental humanoid robot H7: a research platform for autonomous behaviour

2006 ◽  
Vol 365 (1850) ◽  
pp. 79-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Nishiwaki ◽  
James Kuffner ◽  
Satoshi Kagami ◽  
Masayuki Inaba ◽  
Hirochika Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Hierarchical Design ◽  
Simulation Environment ◽  
Experimental Platform ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
The University ◽  
Interaction Research

This paper gives an overview of the humanoid robot ‘H7’, which was developed over several years as an experimental platform for walking, autonomous behaviour and human interaction research at the University of Tokyo. H7 was designed to be a human-sized robot capable of operating autonomously in indoor environments designed for humans. The hardware is relatively simple to operate and conduct research on, particularly with respect to the hierarchical design of its control architecture. We describe the overall design goals and methodology, along with a summary of its online walking capabilities, autonomous vision-based behaviours and automatic motion planning. We show experimental results obtained by implementations running within a simulation environment as well as on the actual robot hardware.

scholarly journals Improving Human Interaction Research through Ecological Grounding

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Albert ◽  
J. P. de Ruiter
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
General Logic ◽  
Context Of Justification ◽  
Natural Data ◽  
Interaction Research

In psychology, we tend to follow the general logic of falsificationism: we separate the ‘context of discovery’ (how we come up with theories) from the ‘context of justification’ (how we test them). However, when studying human interaction, separating these contexts can lead to theories with low ecological validity that do not generalize well to life outside the lab. We propose borrowing research procedures from well-established inductive methodologies in interaction research during the process of discovering new regularities and analyzing natural data without being led by theory. We introduce research procedures including the use of naturalistic study settings, analytic transcription, collections of cases, and data analysis sessions, and illustrate these with examples from a successful cross-disciplinary study. We argue that if these procedures are used systematically and transparently throughout a research cycle, they will lead to more robust and ecologically valid theories about interaction within psychology and, with some adaptation, can enhance the reproducibility of research across many other areas of psychological science.

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