A Custom Web Application to Control NAO using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

We present a web application for controlling NAO V5 and NAO V6 robots using Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HT TPS). The application was designed for a study in a special school. The school staff have found the application easy-to-use and versatile, and it may be useful to other researchers or people interested in controlling NAO. The HT TPS constraint and the locked-down nature of NAO introduced additional development challenges, and the solutions to these challenges are worth sharing with the HRI community. We present characteristics of the web application, implementation details, how it has been set up, and how to use it. Although the application is usable in its current form, there are still things that can be improved to make the application more useful in other contexts. We therefore document how the remote control can be extended and potential starting points for improvement.