CURA - Cultural Understanding of Robotic Acceptance

Focus:	Science Communication
Type of funding:	Individual funding programmes
Programme:	CZS Plus
Funded institution:	Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)

CURA will contribute to understanding how people from different cultural backgrounds react to assistive robots. The aim is to generate knowledge and develop design principles to enable the broad and effective use of assistive robots.

Goals

The funded exchange program consists of two components. At a workshop in Karlsruhe, scientists from Japan and Canada and from robotics research at KIT will come together to discuss cultural differences in the use and acceptance of robots in the personal environment, present previous research results and plan further research projects.

Within the framework of short research stays by young robotics scientists from KIT at the partner institutions and from these institutions at KIT, joint research projects on cultural comparison are to be initiated and external cultural expertise brought into the respective working groups. The plans and preliminary results of the comparisons will be presented at the workshop, discussed and prepared for publication.