Intention-Aware Human-Robot Collaborative Design

Robots pose unique potential partners for human designers when thought of as physical and social embodiments of computational agents. In this work, we propose the efficacy of robotic collaborative design agents and observe challenges and potential directions in an exploratory study of human collaboration with a robot on a design task. Based on these observations, we outline future studies of human-robot design collaboration and focus on the particular challenge of inferring a human partner's design intentions in order to better navigate collaborative design with a robot.