Trustworthy Accessible Robots for Inclusive Cultural experienceS

 

Cultural experiences, such as going to a museum are an important activity in society and an important source of personal enrichment that can affect a person’s wellbeing. However, guided visits are not always accessible for everybody, often leading to vulnerable members of society feeling excluded.

TARICS aims to create an interactive cultural experience for museum visits by provisioning a social robot to make the experience more accessible and inclusive for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The proposed learning and interaction techniques will be deployed on Lindsey, a robot tour guide operating autonomously in The Collection Museum since 2018.

Read our publication

May 2022

Learning on the Job: Long-Term Behavioural Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactions

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Maria Jose (Marisé) Galvez Trigo

Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Lincoln

Lead Contact

Marc Hanheide

Professor of Intelligent Robotics & Interactive Systems, University of Lincoln

Co-Investigator

Niko Kargas

Associate Professor, University of Lincoln

Co-Investigator

Paul Baxter

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Lincoln

Co-Investigator

Ayse Kucukyilmaz

Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator

Francesco del Duchetto

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Lincoln

Research Associate

Lindsey

Tour guide, The Collection Museum

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