Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160104706

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160104706

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Performative Body-Mapping (PBM) method for socialising non-humanlike robots. This project aims to transform techniques of embodiment that are central to human–robot interaction, to improve the social skills and acceptability of future robots. Robots are increasingly becoming part of our lives in the sectors of health, education, commerce and leisure. But robots’ social skills today fall far behind their functional capabilities. Performative body-mapping (PBM) aims to address this problem by inventing and trialling a transdisciplinary body-mapping method for socialising non-humanlike robots. Significantly, this would allow for social robots to be non-humanoid in appearance but still appealing and readable to humans, and robots to be taught to interact by using human movement expertise in an innovative, effective way.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-02-2016

End Date: 31-03-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $240,717.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Interactive Media | Film, Television and Digital Media

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance) | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Film, Television and Digital Media | Interactive Media | The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance)

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