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(2017) Sociality and normativity for robots, Dordrecht, Springer.
An affordance-based conceptual framework for spatial behavior of social robots
Felix Lindner , Carola Eschenbach
pp. 137-158
Socially aware robots have to coordinate their actions considering the spatial requirements of the humans with whom they interact. We propose a general framework based on the notion of affordances that generalizes geometrical accounts to the problem of human-aware placement of robot activities. The framework provides a conceptual instrument to take into account the heterogeneous abilities and affordances of humans, robots, and environmental entities. We discuss how knowledge about (socio-)spacial aspects of affordances can be used in various reasoning tasks relevant to human-robot interaction. Applying the notion of a practical reason, socially-aware robots are able to solve the social activity-placement problem.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53133-5_7
Full citation:
Lindner, F. , Eschenbach, C. (2017)., An affordance-based conceptual framework for spatial behavior of social robots, in R. Hakli & J. Seibt (eds.), Sociality and normativity for robots, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 137-158.
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