HighLight: Towards an Ambient Robotic Table as a Social Enabler
Paper in proceeding, 2023

With smartphones becoming more commonplace in our daily lives, they often take up more time and space than we would like them to. Research shows that using smartphones during social interactions does more harm than good. With this in mind, we set out to create the first prototype of an ambient robotic table that will support social interactions and discourage digital distractions. Through a rapid prototyping process, we present HighLight, a prototype of a socially enabling robotic table that has a smartphone compartment in its center and ambient features reacting in real-time to conversations taking place around the table. We report on our contributions to the research community by investigating the design of an ambient robotic table as a social enabler that encourages social interactions through ambiance, thus exploring future directions of non-disruptive technologies that support social interactions.

Ambient

Social

Robotic Table

Smartphone Sacrifice

Author

Alessandro Cabrio

University of Gothenburg

University of Udine

Negin Hashmati

Student at Chalmers

Philip Rabia

Student at Chalmers

Liina Tumma

Student at Chalmers

Hugo Wärnberg

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Sjoerd Hendriks

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Mohammad Obaid

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

21672148 (eISSN)

146-150
9781450399708 (ISBN)

18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023
Stockholm, Sweden,

Access Table: Accessible Collaboration around Configurable Displays

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2020-04918), 2021-01-01 -- 2024-12-31.

Subject Categories

Media and Communication Technology

Interaction Technologies

Human Computer Interaction

DOI

10.1145/3568294.3580061

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4/13/2023