Social Robots - Robotics and Toy Computing
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Item type: Item , Designing Anthropomorphic Robots For The Real World: Morphological Analysis For Design Science Research On Current And Upcoming Robot Technologies(2024-01-03) Leichtle, Marcel; Homburg, DanielThe proliferation of anthropomorphic robots in various domains requires a standardized approach to evaluate their capabilities and suitability for real-world applications. This review synthesizes adequate research and provides an overview of essential design dimensions in the form of a morphological box to support designers of anthropomorphic robots. We cover five design dimensions: 1) human-like appearance, 2) robot mobility, 3) human-robot interaction, 4) robot construction, and 5) robot sensors. Using this morphological box, researchers and practitioners become aware of design decisions they will have to make when designing anthropomorphic robots. It prevents fragmented or partial perspectives on anthropomorphic robot design and provides a basis for structured, holistic design explorations. Using the case of anthropomorphic robots, we discuss the potential of morphological analysis for design science research (DSR).Item type: Item , Adaptive Defence of the Internet of Things (IoT) using the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Model for Social Robots(2024-01-03) Rafferty, Laura; Macdermott, AineThe Internet of Things (IoT) continues to introduce unique challenges and threats to cybersecurity. In parallel, adaptive and autonomous cyber defence has become an emerging research topic leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity solutions that can learn to recognize, mitigate, and respond to cyber-attacks, and evolve over time as the threat surface continues to increase in complexity. This paradigm presents an environment strongly conducive to agent-based systems, which offer a model for autonomous, cooperative, goal-oriented behaviours which can be applied to perform adaptive cyber defence activities. This paper presents a modular applied framework to leverage data models, domain knowledge, and multi-agent architecture to perform adaptive cyber defence capabilities through contextual policy generation and enforcement. The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is extended for behavioural modeling of agents to perform practical reasoning and deliberation of actions in pursuit of goals.Item type: Item , A Preliminary Design of Privacy Ontology for Smart Toys(2024-01-03) Albuquerque, Otavio; Iqbal, Farkhund; Hung, Patrick; Fantinato, Marcelo; Marques Peres, SarajaneGiven the technological progress, smart toys have become an important product in the toy market. Toy companies adopt different requirements and Web Services to create smart toy features in different shapes and purposes. Each company generally has its requirements and implementation process, including semantic information and risk management guidelines. In other words, there is no common knowledge base related to the smart toy domain, in which the organizations could share information and reuse standardized knowledge, mitigating interoperability issues. Our work aims to build a smart toy’s privacy context ontology, bringing general concepts and privacy-related, machine-readable, providing organizations and software agents a common knowledge base related to privacy on smart toy’s context to reuse for smart toys design and features implementation.Item type: Item , Understanding the Value Co-creation Potential of Social Robots in Primary School Education(2024-01-03) Korhonen, Maria; Lumivalo, Juuli; Clements, Kati; Tuunanen, TuureWhile social robotics have great value creation potential in education, their fit remains unclear, and usage limited. We utilize the lens of Service-dominant (S-D) logic in investigating how value co-creation (and co-destruction) may occur among actors in the educational use of social robots. Our thematic analysis of 10 qualitative interviews with primary school teachers underscores that social robotics herald value co-creation potential by complementing traditional classroom teaching, enabling student engagement and motivation, and supporting teachers in their work. In addition, we identify value co-destruction dimensions relating to teachers’ earlier experiences, attitudes and prejudices towards social robots which could lead to resistance to change and inequalities between teachers and students. This study extends previous understandings of educational social robot use and offers practical guidance to educators and authorities on the matter.Item type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Social Robots - Robotics and Toy Computing(2024-01-03) Huang, Shih-Chia; Hung, Patrick; Marques Peres, Sarajane