Design for Serendipitous Interaction: BubbleBot - Bringing People Together with Bubbles

Fast-paced contemporary life full of planned interaction usually makes people miss out on wonderful moments. We here present BubbleBot, a speculative robot designed to support serendipity of interactions in public space. After observations in public spaces and embodied design workshops, we have desi...

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Main Authors: Lee, Wen-Ying, Hou, Yoyo Tsung-Yu, Zaga, Cristina, Jung, Malte
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Conferences
Information science
Interaction Design
Mobile handsets
Planning
Presses
Public-space Robot
Robots
Serendipitous Interaction
Space exploration
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Summary:Fast-paced contemporary life full of planned interaction usually makes people miss out on wonderful moments. We here present BubbleBot, a speculative robot designed to support serendipity of interactions in public space. After observations in public spaces and embodied design workshops, we have designed BubbleBot to be a peripheral public-space robot, bursting bubbles at passersby to invite serendipitous interactions. BubbleBot is a speculative robot to create magical moments among people with minimal peripheral social interaction. With this project, we aim at generating a conversation about the future roles and interaction paradigms of robots in public space.
ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1109/HRI.2019.8673265