Social Robot Design

This is the result of session 2 in my course on Social Robot Design (2025/2026). Session 2 is all about storybuilding. The goal here is to find a specific story building tool (like storytelling, scripts, storyboard, improv theatre) and go through that process to figure out more about your particular scenario. Let’s consider a scenario for now, like a study session. This was done with: Liz van Ginderen (s27349745) Anna Hornman (s3056600) Oyindrila Sen Gupta (s3697762) Sarah Mans (s2306379) 1. Research Tools for Scenario-Based Design Develop the Tool Open-ended script with improv — like actors (rigid), but with freedom. Or: give the script, but introduce stochastic elements. Sort of a Wizard of Oz, but with a script. Tool Ideas A The Office-style documentary ...

This is the result of session 3 in my course on Social Robot Design (2025/2026). The content of this session was mainly about robot expressivity. We got to play around with an SO-101 robot from huggingface where we utilized a program called TouchDesigner to manage the expressions. It is an intuitive software with drag and drop UI, a picture is shown below. This was done with: Liz van Ginderen (s27349745) Anna Hornman (s3056600) Oyindrila Sen Gupta (s3697762) Sarah Mans (s2306379) Touchdesigner ...