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…)
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