Paul O'Dowd — accepted AI-conference papers

2022

Deliberative Democracy with Robot Swarms

Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert

IROS 2022poster

Decision-making among groups of humans can benefit from open discussion and inclusion of a diversity of opinions, promoting deliberative democracy. In this work, we test whether a swarm of robots can help facilitate decision-making by visually representing the diversity of opinions. We used a swarm…

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2022

MOSAIX: a Swarm of Robot Tiles for Social Human-Swarm Interaction

Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert

ICRA 2022poster

MOSAIX is a new robot swarm platform built to be used in social settings. Consisting of up to 100 individual robot Tiles, MOSAIX is a social swarm system, aimed at helping humans in social tasks such as opinion-mixing and brainstorming. MOSAIX also has the potential to be used as a platform to study…

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