User Interface Design of Humanoid Robot at Library: Case of Chemnitz University of Technology

Abstract

The university library is one of the key places for students at higher education institutions. Some universities support their students with their literature search and research with humanoid robots. The Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT) is one of pioneer universities where a humanoid robot will assist at the university library. This paper describes user interface requirement and its programming, testing and implementation of humanoid robot at the university library. The programmed humanoid robot should support students and visitors with useful guidance and hints in finding materials they need for their research and study. For programming of the robot, the programming language Python was used and the implementation was tested with limited number of users due to the pandemic situation.