Laboratory Objectives:

• To facilitate research projects related to social robotics and digital living in the context of a social interaction from different perspectives
• To conduct research in the causes and effects in the use of socially interactive robots in personal settings such as home, health, workplace, and education
• To investigate user engagement with and performance of social robots
• To support the delivery of courses which require experimentations with programmable and multifunctional social robots interacting within social rules attached to its roles using techniques in artificial intelligence and machine learning