Designing for sociality in HRI by means of multiple personas in robots

Abstract

This conceptual paper provides design guidelines to enhance the sociality of human-robot interaction. The paper draws on the Interaction Pattern Approach in HRI, which seeks to specify the underlying structures and functions of human interaction. We extend this approach by proposing that in the same way people effectively engage the social world with different personas in different contexts, so can robots be designed not only with a single persona but multiple personas.