Breakout C3

Breakout leader: Cynthia Breazeal

What must researchers and NSF do to achieve measurable results

• Need to define metrics (technical perf, impact on people, characterize interactions)

• Competitions, common challenge/decathlon tasks, standardized test arenas, hardware platform to allow researchers to compare techniques and performance– How to find the sweet spot that are useful to sub-communities in

HRI

• Access to human subjects representative of diverse demographics

Applications that will dominate the use of HRI results

• Survey results…(eldercare, etc)• This field is intrinsically appealing• Get students (K-12 & univ) to be excited in

STEM areas to address the “crisis in the pipeline” – HRI is enticing to women and men, because

multidisciplinary, positive impact on quality of human life

• The mass consumer applications (low cost robots that are affordable)

NSF’s role in Community Building

• Funding, funding, funding– Identify appropriate reviewers for this kind of work– $50M incubator (Japan model) to estab. Beyond

an exploratory field

• Roadmap workshop meeting with broadly representative researchers (like this)– How often?

• Multidisciplinary graduate student workshops for HRI to bring in new talent

• (yes, support for HRI conference, journal…)– Special effort to keep it multi-disciplinary– Workshops at main conf. of different communities

Scientific Merit• Metrics and evaluation (developing new

measures, methods that are particular to HRI, performance that improves beyond human only)

• Techniques, algorithms, etc evaluated in domains that address scalability (to perhaps sufficiently constrained real-world situations), comparison with other methods on same benchmarks, etc.

• Address core technologies and their integration that are particular to HRI issues and demands (H-R coupling).

Broader Impact

• Use appeal of HRI for outreach K-12 as well as univ. (womens & minorities) to address “crisis in pipeline”

• Application to improve quality of life (eldercare, education/training, etc.)

• Foster building HRI as a community (infrastructure, resources, corpus…)