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Week 6

During this week's project session, a behavior toolkit was created by my group and I (F. den Brok, S. Nanwani, D. Doeleman, R. den Otter, H. van den Born). The tool should preferably not rely on a Wizard of Oz. At the beginning of the lecture, we talked about the difference between the behavior- and expressive toolkit. After a brief discussion, we concluded that in our eyes, the expressive toolkit had a stronger focus on non-verbal communication and expressiveness, while behavior is more about the overarching image. Behavior is more than movement and expression; it includes the way you talk, the way you move, the valance of your actions and more. We wanted to incorporate this, and after some more brainstorming we decided that it might be interesting to create different ROSE personality cards. We were inspired by the 16 personality types 16 and the concept of Dungeons and Dragons 17 in which you can shape your own character and narrative. In addition to this, we found that personality can be of huge influence on how people behave themselves 18. By using personality types, we aim to create a tool that can be utilized to explore the behavior of ROSE in a lot of different settings. In addition, the tool might allow for the customization of care robots to specifically fit patient needs.

Working of the toolkit

The toolkit works as follows: A caregiver or designer can select a personality type for ROSE. When a caregiver chooses the personality type, they can use the patient's history and knowledge about the patient to select a fitting character type. In addition to this, an interaction designer can also explore behavior in different social settings with this tool. The designer can design their own character sheets or use one of our created sheets.

The five personalities were based on literature. We acknowledge that personalities are not always so straight forward as presented below; however, for the aim of this course a total of 5 personality types were chosen:

ROSE the logician

ROSE as the logician

ROSE as the logician.

ROSE the empath

ROSE as the empath

ROSE as the empath.

ROSE the protector

ROSE as the protector

ROSE as the protector.

ROSE the teacher

ROSE as the teacher

ROSE as the teacher.

ROSE the companion

ROSE as the companion

ROSE as the companion.

The behavioural toolkit will be tested, evaluated and linked to literature during the case study in week 8

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