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- Are concurrent threads a valuable model for multi-robot systems? How distinct will threads be, objectively and subjectively, based on anthropomorphism and identity performance? How will this affect trust and load?
- is time from cue to response a good measure of interactiveness?
- is robot interactivity increasing or decreasing?

DQs:
- would a J-S style study as proposed in Ch10 be of value to HRI?
- Do the definitions and concepts of interactability, interactionality, ratios thereof, and interaction threads and heatmaps make sense for HRI and VAM-HRI? How would they be calculated or quantified? How do they relate to the reality virtuality cube of Interaction?

DQ:

What types of social robots fit into J&S's categories of interfaced, weakly-faceless and strongly-faceless interactions?

What benefits and challenges do you expect to arise as faceless interaction develops in HRI?

DQ: How does stability of characteristics inform the need for explanation proactivity?

!: Will people trust a robot more if it's behavior and appearance are more commensurate, because it is more predictable? E.g. a large robot moving slower and talking more deeply, or a small robot moving quickly and speaking more highly?

DQ: What kind of characteristics are important for robots? How can we decide whether these characteristics are compatible or in conflict? How can these characteristics be represented? How should characteristics inform robot language generation?

DQ: Janlert and Stolterman say that a sense of character /gives unity/ to an interactive system. How is character attributed when intelligence is distributed across an interactive system?

DQ: What elements of character do people ascribe to robots, and how does this affect strategies they use for interacting with them?

DQ: how can Wolfram"s four classes of automata be used to think about different classes of robot behavior designs?

Discussion questions:
1. How can the presented paradigms of interaction apply to robots in particular?
2. J&S present two ways of viewing user centered design, and suggest that within HCI, the "balance" has favores the first interpretation, but that this interpretation does not lead to knowledge about interacting artifacts. Where does the balance sit in HRI, and does it need to shift?