Breakout C3

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Breakout C3

• Breakout leader Cynthia Breazeal

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What must researchers and NSF do to achieve
measurable results

• Need to define metrics (technical perf, impact on
  people, characterize interactions)
• Competitions, common challenge/decathlon tasks,
  standardized test arenas, hardware platform to
  allow researchers to compare techniques and
  performance
• How to find the sweet spot that are useful to
  sub-communities in HRI
• Access to human subjects representative of
  diverse demographics

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Applications that will dominate the use of HRI
results

• Survey results(eldercare, etc)
• This field is intrinsically appealing
• Get students (K-12 univ) to be excited in STEM
  areas to address the crisis in the pipeline
• HRI is enticing to women and men, because
  multidisciplinary, positive impact on quality of
  human life
• The mass consumer applications (low cost robots
  that are affordable)

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NSFs role in Community Building

• Funding, funding, funding
• Identify appropriate reviewers for this kind of
  work
• 50M incubator (Japan model) to estab. Beyond an
  exploratory field
• Roadmap workshop meeting with broadly
  representative researchers (like this)
• How often?
• Multidisciplinary graduate student workshops for
  HRI to bring in new talent
• (yes, support for HRI conference, journal)
• Special effort to keep it multi-disciplinary
• Workshops at main conf. of different communities

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Scientific Merit

• Metrics and evaluation (developing new measures,
  methods that are particular to HRI, performance
  that improves beyond human only)
• Techniques, algorithms, etc evaluated in domains
  that address scalability (to perhaps sufficiently
  constrained real-world situations), comparison
  with other methods on same benchmarks, etc.
• Address core technologies and their integration
  that are particular to HRI issues and demands
  (H-R coupling).

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Broader Impact

• Use appeal of HRI for outreach K-12 as well as
  univ. (womens minorities) to address crisis in
  pipeline
• Application to improve quality of life
  (eldercare, education/training, etc.)
• Foster building HRI as a community
  (infrastructure, resources, corpus)