Communicative Robot Signals: Presenting a New Typology for Human-Robot Interaction

Modelling communicative behaviour can aid in implementing communication We present a new typology for classifying signals from robots when between humans and robots. We argue that designing communication they communicate with humans. For inspiration, we use ethology, in human-robot interaction (HRI) can benefit from a more the study of animal behaviour and previous efforts from literature structured approach to modelling communicative signals since the as guides in defining the typology. The typology is based on robot's interactive capabilities are human-made. Such a model or communicative signals that consist of five properties: the origin typology can offer consistent and accessible ways to design robot where the signal comes from, the deliberateness of the signal, the interactions and identify and describe communicated content. It signal's reference, the genuineness of the signal, and its clarity (i.e., thereby helps to address the following problems: (a) designing robot how implicit or explicit it is). Using the accompanying worksheet, behaviours that communicate what was intended and (b) examining the typology is straightforward to use to examine communicative (mis-)communication in HRI (and experiments). There have signals from previous human-robot interactions and provides guidance been attempts at creating typologies in the past. Some have borrowed for designers to use the typology when designing new robot ideas from animal communication [19].