Tom Williams’s Reviews > Things That Keep Us Busy: The Elements of Interaction > Status Update

- 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: 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?