Paper Reading - Trash in Motion:Emergent Interactions with Robotic Trashcans
Trash in Motion: Emergent Interactions with Robotic Trashcans
Author
Barry Brown, Fanjun Bu, Ilan Mandel, Wendy Ju, CHI 2024
Keywords
Public interaction, human-robot interaction, ethnomethodology
WHAT
- How human without prior training or information about their use interactes with the robotic trashcans?
WHY
autonomous robots become common in use in the city life
little or no training information given about their use and behavior
HOW
Methods
- Wizard of Oz
Apparatus
2 robotic trashcans with normal appearance: one recycling and one landfill
manipulated by the wizard behind
Instrumentation
360° camera
first-person and third-person view
2 overview GoPro camera
360 view mode and equirectangular mode
Deployment
5 deployment on 5 days
2 wizard control
Wizard instructions
- brief instructions: to interact ’naturally’ with the users in the square, and gave the flexibility to choose to operate the trashcan as they see fit.
Authorization and Consent
Data Approach
moment-by-moment interaction
ethnomethodology
conversation analysis
build a corpus of video data
2 authors extract the events
164 interaction highlight spanned 135 minutes or 32% of the overall trial time
Data Selection
- 20 clips that featured interactions that
were smooth, problematic, or seemed unusual or typical
Results
Giving and getting trash
Moving in the square
Demonstrations
Discussion
SSSS Framework
Systematics
Sequential
Simple
Spontaneous
Designing for Spontaneous Simple Sequential Systematics
Urban robotics: in the space or of the space?