https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:74550 I think it was Nervous too : Moving with Robots Hajek, Theresa Theresa Hajek Widrich, Virgil Virgil Widrich text eng The objective of the following work is the making of a human-robot experience, with a focus on the bodily connection to robots in a movement scenario. I propose an artistic exploration of the dynamic between humans and machines, investigating bodily sensations in human-robot interactions (HRI). The artistic research project was realized in cooperation with the Creative Robotics Lab, Linz to produce a movement experiment, that enables a real-time human robot experience. Bodily sensation mapping (BSM) was used as a self-reporting tool to assess physical and emotional experiences humans have when engaging with robots. To begin with, experiments were carried out, in which participants were invited to interact with a robot and later asked to draw their bodily sensations in a body silhouette. Through BSM data was collected and translated by dancers into a movement score, resulting in a choreography. This creates a circular process where actors, humans and robots, influence each other. Robots’ motion design is inspired by human physique as to imitate the efficiency of natural movement. Dance offers the possibility to explore movement scenarios beyond that. Performative approaches function as an expression of an interaction. The outcome of the project is an installation, showing the results of the movement experiments, with a live demonstration of the movement score that was generated through the process. Robotics Body Sensation Mapping Dance http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/api/object/o:74550/download application/pdf 15.44 MB 2025