Emotional Design in Human-Robot Interaction, 1st ed. 2019 Theory, Methods and Applications Human–Computer Interaction Series

While social robots participation increases in everyday human life, their presence in diverse contexts and situations is expected. At the same point, users tend to become more demanding regarding their roles, abilities, behaviour and appearance. Thus, designers and developers are confronted with the need to design more sophisticated robots that can produce such a positive reaction from users so as to become well accepted in various cases of use. Like this, Human-Robot Interaction has become a developing area.

This book gives a practical introduction to emotional design in human-robot interaction and supports designers with knowledge and research tools to help them take design decisions based on a User-Centred Design approach. It should also be useful to people interested in design processes, even if not directly related to the design of social robots but, instead, to other technology-based artefacts. The text is meant as a reference source with practical guidelines and advice for design issues.

Contributes to the design of human robot interaction from the point of emotional design

Provides fundamentals on Human-Robot Interaction and related topics such as emotions, User Experience, User-Centred Design and ethics

Offers an introduction to and overview of major user testing methods, measures and tools