Cultural experiences, such as going to a museum are an important activity in society and an important source of personal enrichment that can affect a person’s wellbeing. However, guided visits are not always accessible for everybody, often leading to vulnerable members of society feeling excluded.
TARICS aims to create an interactive cultural experience for museum visits by provisioning a social robot to make the experience more accessible and inclusive for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The proposed learning and interaction techniques will be deployed on Lindsey, a robot tour guide operating autonomously in The Collection Museum since 2018.
Learning on the Job: Long-Term Behavioural Adaptation in Human-Robot Interactions