Project | Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Spaces
- Oct 2013–Jan 2017
- Social Robotics • Teleoperation
Exploring human-robot interaction and telepresence via socially-aware humanoid robots
Partners: Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Oxford Internet Institute, Queen Mary University of London, University of Bath, University of Cambridge, University of Exeter & University of Oxford.
- Project Website
- http://www.being-there.org.uk/
- Funding Body
- EPSRC
- Grant Reference
- EP/L00416X/1
- Role
- Research Associate
Videos
Gallery
Lillian and William Todd Jones: Puppeteers with our custom Nao armature
Puppet Presence Team
Chris presenting - via a robot - at the Pint of Science Festival, The Bell. Bath
Puppet Presence: The Rusty Squid designed custom armature
Puppeteering with Nao
Mark Levene testing an Oculus Rift VR headset
Capturing facial emotions
Telepresent motion capture testing at Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Testing emotion recognition with Danae and Hatice
Meeting the children: Nao @ Bath Taps into Science
Shaking Hands And Cooperation In Tele-Present Human-Robot Negotiation
Nao, the CREATE lab robot
"Puppet Presence" We The Curious, Bristol.
Being There Project Postcard
Chris at Bath Taps into Science
Lord Kitchenao
Publications
- Use of a Non-Human Robot Audience to Induce Stress Reactivity in Human Participants
- Julie Turner-Cobb, Mashal Asif, James E. Turner, Chris Bevan and Danaë Stanton Fraser. 2019. Computers in Human Behavior. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.019.
- Investigating Social Evaluative Threat (SET) Using A Robotic Stress Testing Panel
- Julie M Turner-Cobb, Mashal Asif, Chris Bevan, Danaë Stanton Fraser, and James E. Turner. 2017. Psychosomatic Medicine. American Psychosomatic Society.
- Evaluating a mobile spontaneous eye blink tracker for use in tele-presence HRI as a low bandwidth social communicative cue
- Chris Bevan and Danaë Stanton Fraser. 2016. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745182.
- Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Social Robots for Public Settings
- Chris Bevan, Paul Bremner, Danaë Stanton Fraser and Hatice Gunes. 2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015. IEEE/RSJ.
- Shaking Hands and Cooperation in Tele-present Human-Robot Negotiation
- Chris Bevan and Danaë Stanton Fraser. 2015. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 247-254. https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696490.
- Being there: humans and robots in public spaces
- Paul Bremner, Niki Trigoni, Ian Brown, Hatice Gunes, Chris Bevan, Danaë Stanton Fraser and Mark Levine. 2013. In G. Herrmann, M. J. Pearson, A. Lenz, P. Bremner, A. Spiers, & U. Leonards (Eds.), Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6.
Press
- Why shaking hands matters (even when it's virtual)
- University of Bath. May 11, 2015.
- Shaking hands makes for better deals say scientists: Even if it's the cold metal grip of NAO the robot
- Daily Mail. May 11, 2015.
- Handshakes so effective at building trust during business negotiations that they work even when one of the parties is a robot
- The Independent. May 11, 2015.
- Why shaking hands is still a big deal
- The Daily Telegraph. May 11, 2015.
- Can humans get on with robots?
- Financial Times. Jan. 3, 2014.
- New project to measure human interaction with robots
- University of Bath. Dec. 11, 2013.
Awards
- Best Paper Award
- Shaking Hands and Cooperation in Tele-Present Human-Robot Negotiation. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015).