Human-robot interaction by information sharing

In the plenary talk addressed at ROMAN92, considered as the first scientific meeting for human-robot interaction [1], I noted that `one of the noticeable features of the current work on human-robot communication is that it generally lacks attention to computer science, particularly to human-computer interaction' [2]. Until that time the field of HRI had been covered by industrial robotics, remote control and augmented reality, and much less attention had been paid to interaction per se, or the design of interactive systems supported by computers and computer network technology.