Designing Human-Robot Interaction with Social Intelligence

Abstract

Robots are a distributive technology that promotes change. Human-Robot Interaction is an emerging field that has exciting prospects for widespread transformation. Today, embedding social intelligence into human-robot interaction design is a moonshot. Moonshots can boost science and engineering by galvanizing and incentivizing research communities and industry in the pursuit of impossible challenges to accelerate progress and scale impact. Social intelligence is all about power and influence; privacy and trust; ethical decisions and happiness. What if, robots could take the initiative and purposefully persuade you to believe something new. HRI with social intelligence has the potential to create breakthrough insights and that will energize the reimagination of how humans and robots will collaborate in business and society.