TY - GEN
T1 - Creative AI for HRI Design Explorations
AU - Hoggenmueller, Marius
AU - Lupetti, Maria Luce
AU - Van Der Maden, Willem
AU - Grace, Kazjon
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Design fixation, a phenomenon describing designers' adherence to pre-existing ideas or concepts that constrain design outcomes, is particularly prevalent in human-robot interaction (HRI), for example, due to collectively held and stabilised imaginations of what a robot should look like or behave. In this paper, we explore the contribution of creative AI tools to overcome design fixation and enhance creative processes in HRI design. In a four weeks long design exploration, we used generative text-to-image models to ideate and visualise robotic artefacts and robot sociotechnical imaginaries. We exchanged results along with reflections through a digital postcard format. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach to imagining novel robot concepts, surfacing existing assumptionsand robot stereotypes, and situating robotic artefacts in context.We discuss the contribution to designerly HRI practices and conclude with lessons learnt for using creative AI tools as an emerging design practice in HRI research and beyond.
AB - Design fixation, a phenomenon describing designers' adherence to pre-existing ideas or concepts that constrain design outcomes, is particularly prevalent in human-robot interaction (HRI), for example, due to collectively held and stabilised imaginations of what a robot should look like or behave. In this paper, we explore the contribution of creative AI tools to overcome design fixation and enhance creative processes in HRI design. In a four weeks long design exploration, we used generative text-to-image models to ideate and visualise robotic artefacts and robot sociotechnical imaginaries. We exchanged results along with reflections through a digital postcard format. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach to imagining novel robot concepts, surfacing existing assumptionsand robot stereotypes, and situating robotic artefacts in context.We discuss the contribution to designerly HRI practices and conclude with lessons learnt for using creative AI tools as an emerging design practice in HRI research and beyond.
KW - creative AI
KW - design research
KW - generative AI
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - ideation
KW - sociotechnical imaginaries
KW - text-to-image models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150411108&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3568294.3580035
DO - 10.1145/3568294.3580035
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85150411108
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 40
EP - 50
BT - HRI 2023 - Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE
T2 - 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023
Y2 - 13 March 2023 through 16 March 2023
ER -