Positioning Modular Co-Design in Future HRI Design Research
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| author | Chen, Lingyun Xiao, Qing Zhang, Zitao Blevis, Eli Šabanović, Selma |
| author_facet | Chen, Lingyun Xiao, Qing Zhang, Zitao Blevis, Eli Šabanović, Selma |
| contents | Design-oriented HRI is increasingly interested in robots as long-term companions, yet many designs still assume a fixed form and a stable set of functions. We present an ongoing design research program that treats modularity as a designerly medium - a way to make long-term human-robot relationships discussable and material through co-design. Across a series of lifespan-oriented co-design activities, participants repeatedly reconfigured the same robot for different life stages, using modular parts to express changing needs, values, and roles. From these outcomes, we articulate PAS (Personalization-Adaptability-Sustainability) as a human-centered lens on how people enact modularity in practice: configuring for self-expression, adapting across transitions, and sustaining robots through repair, reuse, and continuity. We then sketch next steps toward a fabrication-aware, community-extensible modular platform and propose evaluation criteria for designerly HRI work that prioritize expressive adequacy, lifespan plausibility, repairability-in-use, and responsible stewardship - not only usability or performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Positioning Modular Co-Design in Future HRI Design Research Chen, Lingyun Xiao, Qing Zhang, Zitao Blevis, Eli Šabanović, Selma Human-Computer Interaction Robotics Design-oriented HRI is increasingly interested in robots as long-term companions, yet many designs still assume a fixed form and a stable set of functions. We present an ongoing design research program that treats modularity as a designerly medium - a way to make long-term human-robot relationships discussable and material through co-design. Across a series of lifespan-oriented co-design activities, participants repeatedly reconfigured the same robot for different life stages, using modular parts to express changing needs, values, and roles. From these outcomes, we articulate PAS (Personalization-Adaptability-Sustainability) as a human-centered lens on how people enact modularity in practice: configuring for self-expression, adapting across transitions, and sustaining robots through repair, reuse, and continuity. We then sketch next steps toward a fabrication-aware, community-extensible modular platform and propose evaluation criteria for designerly HRI work that prioritize expressive adequacy, lifespan plausibility, repairability-in-use, and responsible stewardship - not only usability or performance. |
| title | Positioning Modular Co-Design in Future HRI Design Research |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19422 |