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However, we believe that robot clothes present an underutilized opportunity for the field of designing interactive systems. Clothes can help robots become better robots––by helping them be useful in a new, wider array of contexts, or better adapt and function in the contexts they are already in. In this paper, we provide a foundation for a research area of robot clothing by speculating on its potential. We systematically present functional requirements of robot clothing, considerations, and parameters for robot clothing designers, as well as key reference cases of robots in clothes. We then discuss what robot clothes can do specifically for the field of designing interactive systems.  \nACM Reference Format:  \nNatalie Friedman, Kari Love, Ray LC, Jenny Sabin, Guy Hoffman, and Wendy Ju. 2021. What Robots Need From Clothing. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21), June 28-July 2, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462045](https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462045)  \n1 INTRODUCTION  \nMost robots are unclothed. This fact may not seem like a problem, since robots are usually not in a context where modesty or coverings are expected from them. However, while clothes might not be a necessity for robots, we believe clothing presents an opportunity in mediating technical challenges for robot interaction design. Clothing for robots provide flexibility for the deployment of interactive systems. Clothing can help robots better signal their function, enable them to handle dirty or dangerous tasks or to better interact with people.  \nBy analyzing existing designs of clothing for robots, and extrapolating on examples contributed by designers, artists, soft roboticists, fashion designers, and HRI researchers, we offer a speculative analysis of robot clothing. We systematically present functional requirements of robot clothing, followed by considerations and parameters for robot clothing designers. We present several key reference cases and discuss what robot clothes  \nPermission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/ora fee. Request permissions [from permissions@acm.org](from permissions@acm.org).  \nDIS ’21, June 28-July 2, 2021, Virtual Event, USA © 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.  \nACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8476-6/21/06. . . $15.00 [https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462045](https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462045)  \nFigure 1: Clothing plays many roles for robots, and should be designed explicitly1  \ncan do specifically for human-robot interactions and the design of robots. The examples of robots wearing clothing are not intended to provide a systematic literature review, but instead to illustrate the utility of the framework. Finally, we examine how robot fashion can go wron","cbCaifWx52QxITHU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifWx52QxITHU","pdf",6458532,11,"English","# Abstract\n# 1 Introduction\n## 1.1 What are robot clothes?\n# 2 What do robots need from clothes?","[{\"question\":\"Why do the authors argue robots should have clothing?\",\"answer\":\"They view robot clothing as an opportunity to mediate interaction-design challenges and expand where robots can be deployed effectively.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main goal in studying robot clothing?\",\"answer\":\"It provides a research foundation by presenting functional requirements, design considerations and parameters, plus key reference cases and implications for interactive systems.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the authors define robot clothing?\",\"answer\":\"They challenge the idea that robot clothes should simply mimic human apparel, arguing instead that garments should be motivated by what robots need.\"}]","What Robots Need From Clothing - read online free | PDF",1791059716,28]