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Anthropocentric Robotics
Head: Kristen Stubbs
Contact: Kristen Stubbs (kstubbs@cmu.edu)
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC
Associated lab/group: Human-Robot Interaction Group
| Project Description |
The focus of the Anthropocentric Robotics Project is on the importance of understanding people in order to build better robots. The goals of the project are to develop a "cognitive model" of how people understand robots, to integrate knowledge about this model into robotic systems, and to evaluate the effectiveness of this integration in improving human-robot interactions. At the present time, the Anthropocentric Robotics Project involves three studies of human-robot systems: a study of employees at NASA Ames and their involvement in the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission (completed), a study of museum employees and their interactions with the Personal Exploration Rover (completed), and a study of the interactions among scientists, roboticists, and a semi-autonomous rover as part of the Life in the Atacama project (in progress). Our next steps are to combine the results of these studies to generate a model of how people understand robots, to use this model to improve a robotic system, and to evaluate the impact of the use of the model on human-robot interaction. By better understanding people, we hope to generate quantifiable improvements in how well they are able to work with robots.
| Personnel |
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Name | Title | Email Address |
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Illah Nourbakhsh | Associate Professor | illah@ri.cmu.edu |
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Kristen Stubbs | PhD Student, RI | kstubbs@cmu.edu |
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David Wettergreen | Assoc. Research Professor | dsw@ri.cmu.edu |
| Publications |
Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.