Abstract
Over the last few years, technological developments in semi-autonomous machines have raised awareness about the strategic importance of human-robot interaction (HRI) and its technical and social implications. At the same time, HRI still lacks an established pedagogic tradition in the coordination of its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature. This scenario presents steep and urgent challenges for HRI education. Our contribution presents a normative interdisciplinary dialogic framework for HRI education, denoted InDia wheel, aimed toward seamless and coherent integration of the variety of disciplines that contribute to HRI. Our framework deemphasizes technical mastery, reducing it to a necessary yet not sufficient condition for HRI design, thus modifying the stereotypical narration of HRI-relevant disciplines and creating favorable conditions for a more diverse participation of students. Prospectively, we argue, the design of an educational 'space of interaction' that focuses on a variety of voices, without giving supremacy to one over the other, will be key to successful HRI education and practice.
Highlights
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a relatively recent and growing research field that is concerned with the ways humans might work, play, and otherwise interact with different types of robots
We provide a discussion about educational theory and practice, in order to introduce our suggestions for the creation of HRI education that sheds light on the challenges and the potential of diversity
This article expresses the position of the authors on HRI education
Summary
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a relatively recent and growing research field that is concerned with the ways humans might work, play, and otherwise interact with different types of robots. The time has come for ‘personal/social robotics’ that will mimic, and likely surpass, the diffusion of personal computers we have witnessed over the last two decades This technical achievement opens new perspectives and brings new challenges to the design of the interaction between humans and robots. According to Dautenhahn and Saunders (2011), there are several disciplines that contribute to HRI and bring different viewpoints and approaches to the field They argue that it would be beneficial to consider and inco rporate research from a wider outlook that may challenge and enhance existing frameworks and open new frontiers in HRI.
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