Breakout C3 Breakout leader: Cynthia Breazeal

What must researchers and NSF do to achieve measurable results Need to define metrics (technical perf, impact on people, characterize interactions) Competitions, common challenge/decathlon tasks, standardized test arenas, hardware platform to allow researchers to compare techniques and performance –How to find the sweet spot that are useful to sub-communities in HRI Access to human subjects representative of diverse demographics

Applications that will dominate the use of HRI results Survey results…(eldercare, etc) This field is intrinsically appealing Get students (K-12 & univ) to be excited in STEM areas to address the “crisis in the pipeline” –HRI is enticing to women and men, because multidisciplinary, positive impact on quality of human life The mass consumer applications (low cost robots that are affordable)

NSF’s role in Community Building Funding, funding, funding –Identify appropriate reviewers for this kind of work –$50M incubator (Japan model) to estab. Beyond an exploratory field Roadmap workshop meeting with broadly representative researchers (like this) –How often? Multidisciplinary graduate student workshops for HRI to bring in new talent (yes, support for HRI conference, journal…) –Special effort to keep it multi-disciplinary –Workshops at main conf. of different communities

Scientific Merit Metrics and evaluation (developing new measures, methods that are particular to HRI, performance that improves beyond human only) Techniques, algorithms, etc evaluated in domains that address scalability (to perhaps sufficiently constrained real-world situations), comparison with other methods on same benchmarks, etc. Address core technologies and their integration that are particular to HRI issues and demands (H-R coupling).

Broader Impact Use appeal of HRI for outreach K-12 as well as univ. (womens & minorities) to address “crisis in pipeline” Application to improve quality of life (eldercare, education/training, etc.) Foster building HRI as a community (infrastructure, resources, corpus…)