b. Design Scenario

Version 3.1 by Mees van der Lecq on 2023/04/05 11:45

Bob places Dogg0 in the room. Truus notices that Dogg0 looks familiar, it reminds her of a dog. Bob initiates the robot's sequence, Dogg0 wakes up, looks around and notices Truus, plays an exciting sound and starts waggling its tail. Dogg0 drives towards Truus and looks up to her. Dogg0, shows her expressions that stimulate her to interact with it, blinking, waggling its tail and turning its ears. Truus interprets these expressions as a sign of Dogg0 wanting to be pet, so she pets it on the head. Dogg0 plays a warming sound, turns its LEDs to a warm orange color, closes its eyes, slowly waggles its tail and moves his head down. Truus continues to pet it, it reminds her of her own dogs.

After she has stopped petting it, Dogg0 re-enters the state of stimulating interaction by looking back up, turning its ears, turning its LEDs to a bright purple, blinking and waggling its tail rapidly. With the suggestion of BobTruus claps, which initiates Dogg0's dance. Dogg0's LEDs turn a bright blue, does a little bow, plays a high tone, blinks, starts waggling its tail rapidly, turns around and moves forward. Then, it starts to rotate and move backwards, rotate and move forwards. It does that a few times while rotating its ears, Changing its LEDs to different colors and blinking its eyes. All of these movements and expressions stimulate Truus to dance together with Dogg0. She continues clapping and Dogg0 continues dancing, lifting her mood. 

At the end of the sequence, after Truus has stopped clapping, Dogg0 turns around, drives away and goes to sleep. It does this by stopping, moving its head down, switching off its LEDs, closing its eyes and rotating its ears back. Truus is tired from the interaction and falls asleep in her armchair. Bob then takes Dogg0 away, preparing it for future interactions.