The cognitive science and psychology literature offer a lot of insight into human perception, developmental milestones, and human-human relationships that can be valuable when designing robots for interaction with humans. Understanding whether human-robot relationships match human-human is crucial when creating effective interactions between robots and humans.
The cognitive and psychology literature provide insights into human-human relations and developmental milestones, which can be used to understand the challenges involved in human-robot interaction. The question remains whether the challenges in HRI are fundamentally psychological or still related to robotics.
The speaker talks about how his research on control theory led him to the field of human-robot interaction and the realization that his algorithms required human data and an understanding of human perception.