Kidd, C., Breazeal, C.

Abstract

Human-robot interaction research is maturing to the point where we can begin to build systems that interact with people in their daily lives and provide support for particular needs. We propose a sociable robot system to help people who are losing weight or maintaining their target weight to better track their progress. We describe related work in sociable robotics and ubiquitous computing and define the term sociable robot systems as systems that comprise a sociable robot, other technological devices, methods for interaction, and methods for relationship creation and maintenance. The system that is currently being implemented is described as well as the plans for testing the system in a real-world setting