@inproceedings{3ee7d9a74e4e4507ac526e8e4c1c1b54,
title = "Expressive lights for revealing mobile service robot state",
abstract = "{\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.Autonomous mobile service robots move in our buildings, carrying out different tasks across multiple floors. While moving and performing their tasks, these robots find themselves in a variety of states. Although speech is often used for communicating the robot{\textquoteright}s state to humans, such communication can often be ineffective.We investigate the use of lights as a persistent visualization of the robot{\textquoteright}s state in relation to both tasks and environmental factors. Programmable lights offer a large degree of choices in terms of animation pattern, color and speed. We present this space of choices and introduce different animation profiles that we consider to animate a set of programmable lights on the robot. We conduct experiments to query about suitable animations for three representative scenarios of our autonomous symbiotic robot,CoBot.Ourwork enables CoBot tomake its state persistently visible to humans.",
author = "K. Baraka and A. Paiva and M. Veloso",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_9",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319271453",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "107--119",
editor = "P.U. Lima and L. Montano and L.P. Reis and V. Mu{\~n}noz-Martinez and A.P. Moreira",
booktitle = "Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference",
note = "2nd Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2015 ; Conference date: 19-11-2015 Through 21-11-2015",
}