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Designing a Collaborative Virtual Reality Game for Teen-Robot Interactions

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Ada S. Kim,

Elin A. Björling,

Simran Bhatia,

Dong LiAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 470 - 475

https://doi.org/10.1145/3311927.3325314

Published: 12 June 2019 Publication History

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Virtual reality (VR) offers potential as a prototyping tool for human-robot interaction. We explored a way to utilize human-centered design (HCD) methodology to develop a collaborative VR game for understanding teens' perceptions of, and interactions with, social robots. Our paper features three stages of the design process for teen-robot interaction in VR; ideation, prototyping, and the game development. In the ideation stage, we identified three important design principles: collaboration, customization, and robot characterization. In the prototyping stage, we developed a card game, conducted gameplay, and confirmed our design principles. Finally, we developed a low-fidelity VR game and received teens' feedback. This exploratory study highlights the potential of VR, both for collaborative robot design and teen-robot interaction studies.

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Designing a Collaborative Virtual Reality Game for Teen-Robot Interactions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Collaborative interaction
      2. Virtual reality

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IDC '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2019

787 pages

ISBN:9781450366908

DOI:10.1145/3311927

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Boise State University, USA

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