Speakers

Ameersing Luximon, PhD

Professor of Practice, GTSI (China), Adjunct Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, (USA), President, Hong Kong Ergonomics Society (Hong Kong), Director, EMEDS (Hong Kong)

Biography: Prof Ameersing Luximon is currently Professor of Practice at GTSI in the Industrial Design area. He is also president of the Hong Kong Ergonomics society (HKES) and council member of the IEA. Previously, Dr Luximon worked as Associate Professor of fashion design in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Dr Luximon completed his PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He has more than 20 years working experience in academia and industry. He has more than 160 publications. He is the editor of the handbook of footwear design and manufacture (2013 and 2021) and editor of the International Shibori symposi¬um proceedings (2011-2016). He was the program chair for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (USA) Product design Technical Group (2011, 2012). His teaching and research areas include Ergonomics in Design; wearable product design; Biomechanics and health Application, AI in Design; social robots; and entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity.

Title: Design consideration for robot head

Abstract: With the projected market of global social robots reaching US$ 13.3 Billion by 2027, the interaction and communication between robots and human is a major consideration in the design and development of social robots. In addition, due to ever increasing sophistication of robots based on AI technologies and the usage of robots in multiple fields such as patient moral support and education, there are emerging field of robot ethics such robot rights, responsibilities, moral support. Human–robot interaction (HRI) to have efficient and seamless communication, requires understanding of the emotions, personality, and verbal and non-verbal behaviors. Research has indicated that the design of the robot head can significantly influence trust of the social robots. This presentation will consider the robot design and its impact on social interaction such as trustworthiness, Aggressiveness, dominance, Appeal and Eeriness.