Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Gerndt & Prof. Dr. Tobias Dörnbach
Human-Centered Robotics Lab
In the Human-Centered Robotics Lab as a part of the Human-Centered Engineering Hub, we work on architectures, development and evaluation of robotic systems, specifially in social, health and cultural contexts as well as in special applications like environment-supporting robotics.
Our main research target is understanding user (re-)actions, proactively work with users to encounter their reservations towards robots and ensuring highest-possible usability of our systems. We evaluate solutions developed for this purpose with user acceptance as a target variable, because:
a system that users do not want to use in everyday life is not a satisfactory solution to their problems.
To devlop and evaluation real robotic systems, a robot arena is available in room 162 for various scenarios and equipped with diverse robots.
