PAPERINO

Abstract

Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) is a technique that is popular for prototyping and generating expressive movement behaviours in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This technique often has people (usually experimenters or trained confederates) remotely pilot a robot using a control interface in order to simulate an artificially intelligent robot. Researchers often need to train themselves on the mapping of the control interface to the robots possible degrees-of-freedom, which can be confusing and time consuming. In this demo we present our remote puppeteering WoZ interface whereby a replica of the robot is able to remotely control a fully functional robot nearby. We are presenting this system using our robot Pingu, an open source social robot designed for Human-Robot Interaction labs.