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the robot. Instead, we want to engineer for the human side of the equation—to
design Kismet in such a way to support what comes naturally to people, so
that they will intuitively communicate with and teach the robot. Towards this,
we have learned that both artistic and scientific insights play an important role
in designing sociable robots that follow the infant-caregiver metaphor. The
design encourages people to intuitively engage in appropriate interactions with
the robot, from which we can explore socially situated learning scenarios.

Acknowledgments
The author gratefully acknowledges the creativity and ingenuity of the members of the Hu-
manoid Robotics Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. This work was funded by NTT
and Darpa contract DABT 63–99–1–0012.

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