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SUMMARY:Designing Robots with Movement in Mind
DTSTART:20171218T111500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Guy Hoffman\, Cornell University\nRobots designed for hu
 man-robot interaction (HRI) mostly follow one of two design paths: pragmat
 ic and visual. A pragmatic design approach sets out from specifications re
 quired of the robot’s spatial activity towards physical goals\, as defin
 ed by users of the system. A visual approach is to design robots with appe
 arance in mind. This is common for robots intended specifically for expres
 sive interaction\, as well as for entertainment robots.\n\nIn our work\, w
 e emphasize the fact that the expressive movement of the robot is at the c
 ore of its function\, and argue for a movement-centric design approach. Th
 e robot’s movement is not added on after the robot is designed\, or—mo
 re commonly—completely built. Instead\, it is factored in from the onset
  and converses with both the visual and the pragmatic requirements of the 
 robot. I will exemplify this approach through the design process of five s
 ocially expressive robots designed in our labs\, including Shimon\, Travis
 \, Kip\, Vyo\, and most recently\, Blossom.\n\nBio: Dr. Guy Hoffman is Ass
 istant Professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow  in the Sibley Schoo
 l of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to
  that he was Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya and co-director of the ID
 C Media Innovation Lab. Hoffman holds a Ph.D from MIT in the field of huma
 n-robot interaction. He heads the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companion
 ship (HRC2) group\, studying the algorithms\, interaction schema\, and d
 esigns enabling close interactions between people and personal robots in t
 he workplace and at home. Among others\, Hoffman developed the world’s f
 irst human-robot joint theater performance\, and the first real-time impr
 ovising human-robot Jazz duet.\n\nHis research papers won several top acad
 emic awards\, including Best Paper awards at HRI and robotics conferences 
 in 2004\, 2006\, 2008\, 2010\, 2013\, and 2015. In both 2010 and 2012\, he
  was selected as one of Israel’s most promising researchers under forty.
  His TEDx talk is one of the most viewed online talks on robotics\, watc
 hed more than 2.8 million times. Hoffman received his M.Sc. in Computer S
 cience from Tel Aviv University as part of the Adi Lautman interdisciplina
 ry excellence scholarship program.
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