Its purpose was only to demonstrate some possibilities of remote control of a Khepera mobile robot. It is accessible daily to everybody. After one year of access we performed an analysis of the log-files in order to understand the behaviour of the public facing such an installation. This analysis was rather difficult because of the large amount of data involved. Specific software was developed in order to extract the relevant information and to put it in a form that can be significative.
Results show that people came mainly once and the few who return do it rapidly.
The second visit is made on average after less than 15 days. Only a few of the visitors really operated the setup. This paper focuses on interface design, hardware and particularly on user behaviour. The emergence of the World Wide Web provides a unique opportunity to connect robots to the Internet, enabling people all over the World to control them and monitor their operation. This paper describes a series of Web interfaces, designed to remotely operate mobile robots in public places through the Web.