Beau.
A public service robot that posts its own narrative
Beau is a public service robot that posts its experiences on the internet. This robot was employed during the COVID-19 pandemic to roam the lobby spaces of buildings, encouraging and assisting visitors in taking temperature checks. On the other hand, using its built-in camera, Beau was able to capture special events and generate short related posts, which were published on a web application designed in a social media style.

Beau was specifically designed to explore the impact of a robot's ability to perceive its surroundings and reflect upon them on the intimacy felt towards the robot. I deployed Beau in the field and conducted studies, discovering that users perceived Beau as possessing a higher level of social capability in terms of warmth compared to standard robots.

As the lead designer and researcher for this project, I actively led all processes, including ideation, concept design, hardware production, software development, study design and execution, analysis of study results, and paper writing.

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