Deliberative Democracy with Robot Swarms
Merihan Alhafnawi,Edmund R. Hunt,Severin Lemaignan,Paul O'Dowd,Sabine Hauert,Merihan Alhafnawi,Edmund R. Hunt,Severin Lemaignan,Paul O'Dowd,Sabine Hauert
Decision-making among groups of humans can benefit from open discussion and inclusion of a diversity of opinions, promoting deliberative democracy. In this work, we test whether a swarm of robots can help facilitate decision-making by visually representing the diversity of opinions. We used a swarm of robots we built, called MOSAIX, that consists of 4-inch touchscreens-on-wheels robots called Tile...
