{"title":"Introduction to the inaugural issue","authors":"L. Takayama, Willow Garage, B. Scassellati","doi":"10.5898/JHRI/1.1.TAKAYAMA","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The intertwining of people and robots is at the very heart of human-robot interaction. The design of effective human-robot interactions depends not only upon an elegant and thorough engineering design for the robot's behavior, but also a clear and insightful understanding of how the human user is likely to behave toward the robot. This presents a challenge and an opportunity for engaging robotics systems research with the cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. Without a deeper understanding of human user contexts, real user needs, and an ability to evaluate a robotic system's performance in terms of user needs, robotics runs the risk of inventing technologies for the sake of the technologies themselves. Without a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art in robotics, user research runs the risk of generating superficial or irrelevant recommendations for robotic system design.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5898/JHRI/1.1.TAKAYAMA","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of human-robot interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI/1.1.TAKAYAMA","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The intertwining of people and robots is at the very heart of human-robot interaction. The design of effective human-robot interactions depends not only upon an elegant and thorough engineering design for the robot's behavior, but also a clear and insightful understanding of how the human user is likely to behave toward the robot. This presents a challenge and an opportunity for engaging robotics systems research with the cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. Without a deeper understanding of human user contexts, real user needs, and an ability to evaluate a robotic system's performance in terms of user needs, robotics runs the risk of inventing technologies for the sake of the technologies themselves. Without a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art in robotics, user research runs the risk of generating superficial or irrelevant recommendations for robotic system design.