Conclusion of the ReThiCare project

The ReThicare project has officially concluded.

This was my very first experience working with an interdisciplinary team comprising socialists, roboticists, and human-computer interaction researchers.

The experience of collaborating within such a multifaceted team was truly unique. Setting objectives and aligning them with each other’s expectations presented an exciting challenge. I was part of the Plant Watering Robot (PWR) team wherein we developed a proof of concept to investigate the use of distributed agency on mobile care robots.

More details about our work can be found in the following publications:

Graf, G., Lefeuvre, K., Palinko, O., Naik, L., Zarp, C. S., Bischof, A., … & Krüger, N. (2022). Fostering Well-being in Care with the Nautical Designed Plant Watering Robot. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (pp. 255-261).

Palinko, O., Graf, P., Naik, L., Lefeuvre, K., Zarp, C. S., & Krüger, N. (2021, November). Intention Signaling for Mobile Social Service Robots-The Example of Plant Watering. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 797-802). Springer, Cham.