Hand-Clapping Games with a Baxter Robot

2017

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Robots that work alongside humans might be more effective if they could forge a strong social bond with their human partners. Hand-clapping games and other forms of rhythmic social-physical interaction may foster human-robot teamwork, but the design of such interactions has scarcely been explored. At the HRI 2017 conference, we will showcase several such interactions taken from our recent work with the Rethink Robotics Baxter Research Robot, including tempo-matching, Simon says, and Pat-a-cake-like games. We believe conference attendees will be both entertained and intrigued by this novel demonstration of social-physical HRI.

@misc{Fitter17-HRID-Clapping,
  title = {Hand-Clapping Games with a {B}axter Robot},
  author = {Fitter, Naomi T. and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
  howpublished = {Hands-on demonstration presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  month = mar,
  year = {2017},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {3}
}