Design (Not) Lost in Translation: A Case Study of an Intimate-Space Socially Assistive "Robot" for Emotion Regulation

Katherine Isbister; Peter Cottrell; Alessia Cecchet; Ella Dagan; Nikki Theofanopoulou; Ferran Altarriba Bertran; Aaron J. Horowitz; Nick Mead; Joel B. Schwartz; Petr Slovak

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Design (Not) Lost in Translation: A Case Study of an Intimate-Space Socially Assistive "Robot" for Emotion Regulation

Katherine Isbister, Peter Cottrell, Alessia Cecchet, Ella Dagan, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Aaron J. Horowitz, Nick Mead, Joel B. Schwartz, Petr Slovak

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We present a Research-Through-Design case study of the design and development of an intimate-space tangible device perhaps best understood as a socially assistive robot, aimed at scaffolding children's efforts at emotional regulation. This case study covers the initial research device development, as well as knowledge transfer to a product development company toward translating the research into a workable commercial product that could also serve as a robust "research product"for field trials. Key contributions to the literature include: (1) sharing of lessons learned from the knowledge transfer process that can be useful to others interested in developing robust products (whether commercial or research) that preserve design values, while allowing for large scale deployment and research; (2) articulation of a design space in HCI/HRI (Human Robot Interaction) of intimate space socially assistive robots, with the current artifact as a central exemplar, contextualized alongside other related HRI artifacts.

Original language	English
Article number	32
Journal	ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Volume	29
Issue number	4
Early online date	31 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491083
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2022

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Intimate-space socially assistive robot
haptic interaction
emotion regulation
tangible

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