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HRI Student Design Competition
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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:20:59 GMT
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The HRI Student Design Competition
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The HRI2008 conference will host a student design competition to foster young
talents. The goal of the competition is to create exciting new ideas for
interaction between robots and humans. The emphasis is on the design of the
robot’s interaction with people, and we look forward to receiving creative
solutions from university students (undergraduate and graduate). The human-robot
interaction design will be judged on novelty, consistency, possible impact on
academia and industry, and presentation. A jury of experts will determine the
winner.
Process
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Students will be given only about four weeks to complete their design. Students
can work in teams of up to four members. The number of participating teams is
limited to twelve. The registration will in principle be handled on a first come
first served basis, while taking into account the qualification and motivation
of each team. Every registered team will receive a Lego NXT box and additional
sensors, actuators and regular Lego bricks on February 12th 2008. The students
are not allowed to use any other material than those provided. However they are
allowed to use other software, such as Lejos. At the HRI’08 conference each team
will be given about 5 minutes to present their design during a lunch session.
The expert jury will judge the designs and announce the winner later during the
conference. For each student team that registers for the design contest, at
least one student needs to attend HRI’08 and register for the conference by 31
January 2008. The standard conference refunding policies apply for these
registrations. Students may apply for a limited number of travel grants. Please
check the HRI website at http://hri2008.org/StudentDesign.php for details.
Students or student teams who would like to participate in the design contest
are asked to register their team by sending an email to c.bartneck@tue.nl by 28
January 2008 with the following information:
1. Name of the team
2. name(s) and email address(es) of all team members
3. The postal address needed to deliver the Lego box
4. Short statement of interest/background in human-robot interaction
5. Any initial ideas on robot interaction design
Important Dates
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28 January 2008: registration of team for the contest
31 January 2008: one team member must register for the HRI’08 conference
12 February 2008: Lego boxes will be shipped
12-15 March 2008: HRI’08 Conference (preliminary date for the contest is March
14th, 2008)
Sponsors
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Lego and National Instruments provide the material for the student design
competition and sponsor the lunch break during which presentations will be
given. Students are required to bring all the received Lego boxes to the
conference.
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