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Shutter: A Low-Cost and Flexible Social Robot Platform for In-the-Wild Deployments
Deploying robots in-the-wild is critical for studying human-robot interaction, since human behavior varies between lab settings and public settings. Though robots that have been used in-the-wild exist, many of these robots are proprietary, expensive, or unavailable. We introduce Shutter, a low-cost, flexible social robot platform for in-the-wild experiments on human-robot interaction. Our demonstration will include a Shutter robot, which consists of a 4-DOF arm with a face screen, and a Kinect sensor. We will demonstrate two different interactions with Shutter: a photo-taking interaction and an embodied explanations interaction. Both interactions have been publicly deployed on the Shutter system.
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- PAR ID:
- 10507771
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- HRI '24: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
- ISBN:
- 9798400703232
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 94 to 96
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Boulder CO USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3641090
