COLUMN: Discovering the User Invented Behaviors Through the Interpersonal Coordination

摘要

We developed soccer ball-shaped interactive artifacts (COLUMN) consisting of eight modules that are connected to twelve servomotors. Our motivation is to explore a variety of a robot's body configuration for rolling behaviors which are invented by three user's coordination. In the interaction, COLUMN becomes a social mediator to prompt the connectivity of the users. We explore how and what are the effects when a robot become a social mediator and investigate the conflict rates and interpersonal coordination of the users. Finally, we discover different body configuration patterns (sequences) from the user's connectivity in each group. Each sequence of body configurations are directed to extract essential parameters to the rolling behaviors.