NDLI: Enhancing My Keepon robot: A simple and low-cost solution for robot platform in Human-Robot Interaction studies

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hoang-Long Cao Van de Perre, G. Simut, R. Pop, C. Peca, A. Lefeber, D. Vanderborght, B.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Clinical & Life Span Psychol. Group, Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (Simut, R.) \|\| Robot. & Multibody Mech. Res. Group, Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (Hoang-Long Cao; Van de Perre, G.; Lefeber, D.; Vanderborght, B.) \|\| Dept. of Clinical Psychol. & Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai Univ., Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Pop, C.; Peca, A.)
Abstract	Many robots capable of performing social behaviors have recently been developed for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies. These social robots are applied in various domains such as education, entertainment, medicine, and collaboration. Besides the undisputed advantages, a major difficulty in HRI studies with social robots is that the robot platforms are typically expensive and/or not open-source. It burdens researchers to broaden experiments to a larger scale or apply study results in practice. This paper describes a method to modify My Keepon, a toy version of Keepon robot, to be a programmable platform for HRI studies, especially for robot-assisted therapies. With an Arduino microcontroller board and an open-source Microsoft Visual C# software, users are able to fully control the sounds and motions of My Keepon, and configure the robot to the needs of their research. Peripherals can be added for advanced studies (e.g., mouse, keyboard, buttons, PlayStation2 console, Emotiv neuroheadset, Kinect). Our psychological experiment results show that My Keepon modification is a useful and low-cost platform for several HRI studies.
Starting Page	555
Ending Page	560
File Size	1785972
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479967636
e-ISBN	9781479967650
DOI	10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926311
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-25
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robots Software Computer crime Visualization Hardware Graphical user interfaces Joints
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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