As part of our Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet project we will be deploying a robot – named CheerBot to the School of Computer Science in the University of Nottingham. CheerBot is a project in its own right and more details about this work can be found here and here.
Cheerbot will mostly move around the Mixed Reality Laboratory, but will also engage with staff and students within the wider School environment.
CheerBot will interact with people in several ways which include: sharing a joke, sharing news updates from the School, prompting people to make a choice relating to their mood on that day, giving friendly reminders and asking for a photo-of-the-day (not to include images of people), to create a weekly collage.
It is important to note that no personal data will be collected by any of the interactions with CheerBot and that mood and landscape images will not be associated with a person/people. All images will be deleted weekly.
CheerBot will be supervised by a member of the W-WATI project team at all times to ensure the safety of everyone – including CheerBot! This is the first time a robot will be deployed in a public space within the School and we are hoping it will provide lots of useful feedback to support our work investigating workplace wellbeing.