Cooperative Design of a Robotic Shopping Trolley

Abstract

To advocate the design of a human-robot interaction in the cooperative design tradition this article describes the design activities of enactment and reflects upon the degree of open-endedness in design. Special attention during the process of designing a robotized, multimodal shopping trolley is given to the necessary adaptation of known techniques from graphical user interface design to the area of human-robot interface design. Involving users in such a cooperative design process poses a challenge as the early design activities need to take the mobility of both users and the robotic devices into account. Discussing how video prototyping techniques can be adapted, advantages and disadvantages of various kinds of creative adjustment to traditional cooperative design methods are discussed.