Designing an API at an appropriate abstraction level for programming social robot applications

Diprose, James; MacDonald, Bruce; Hosking, John; Plimmer, Beryl

dc.contributor.author	Diprose, James	en
dc.contributor.author	MacDonald, Bruce	en
dc.contributor.author	Hosking, John	en
dc.contributor.author	Plimmer, Beryl	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-13T23:09:06Z	en
dc.date.issued	2017-04	en
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 39:22-40 Apr 2017	en
dc.identifier.issn	1045-926X	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35060	en
dc.description.abstract	Whilst robots are increasingly being deployed as social agents, it is still difficult to program them to interact socially. To create usable tools for programming these robots, tool developers need to know what abstraction levels are appropriate for programming social robot applications. We explore this through the iterative design and evaluation of an API for programming social robots. The results show that high level primitives, with a close mapping to social interaction, are suitable for programming social robot applications. However, the abstraction level should not be so high that it takes away too much control from programmers. This has the potential to enable programmers to produce high quality social robot applications with less programming effort.	en
dc.publisher	Academic Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Visual Languages and Computing	en
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	en
dc.title	Designing an API at an appropriate abstraction level for programming social robot applications	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.jvlc.2016.07.005	en
pubs.begin-page	22	en
pubs.volume	39	en
dc.description.version	AM - Accepted Manuscript	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: Elsevier	en
pubs.end-page	40	en
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pubs.subtype	Article	en
pubs.elements-id	536063	en
pubs.org-id	Engineering	en
pubs.org-id	Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering	en
pubs.org-id	Science	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1095-8533	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2017-01-09	en