Exploring Social Identity with Furhat
This tool was developed primarily by Ying He and Gaspar Melsion in a collaboration with Madeline Balaam for Ying's masters thesis at KTH. We used the tool to conduct (remote) participatory design sessions with teenagers in Sweden, as a follow-up to my alt.HRI 2021 work on gender norm-breaking robots. The aim was to explore if/how teenagers would leverage anthropomorphic and/or gendering cues when invited to construct a social robot identity design for Furhat, with more potential for customisation (e.g. being able to choose non human-like skin colours) than offered by the fixed faces available in Furhat's SDK.
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You can clone the blank design tool miro board from here or see it embedded within the full activity we envisaged here.