What is it about?
Designing safe human–robot collaboration is still daunting for interaction designers without robotics expertise. This paper introduces and empirically validates a toolkit that integrates ISO 15066 safety modes, team-composition heuristics and a leader–follower timeline into a single, step-by-step workflow, allowing designers to script close-proximity industrial arm tasks rapidly and coherently. Two rounds of usability evaluation confirm the toolkit speeds ideation and deepens safety and behaviour planning, demonstrating a viable bridge between human-centred design practice and industrial constraints.
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Why is it important?
The toolkit breaks down the barriers between human-centred design and factory-grade robotics: it enables interaction and product designers to translate creative ideas directly into ISO-compliant, close-proximity robot tasks without touching code.
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This page is a summary of: Evaluating a Design Toolkit for Human-robot Collaboration in Close-Proximity Scenarios with Robotic Arms: Group Usability Tests with Postgraduate Interaction Design Students, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3736422.
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