Comparing laboratory user studies and video-enhancedweb surveys for eliciting user gestures in human-robot interactions

Shanee Honig; Tal Oron-Gilad

doi:10.1145/3371382.3378325

Comparing laboratory user studies and video-enhancedweb surveys for eliciting user gestures in human-robot interactions

Shanee Honig, Tal Oron-Gilad

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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Abstract

Laboratory studies are time consuming and costly. We aimed to examine whether the gestures users naturally select to communicate commands to a mobile robot during a laboratory user study can be comparable to those selected during an online video-enhanced survey. 64 participants were divided into two experimental groups according to the interaction methodology. In both conditions, participants instructed the robot to perform eight different tasks using only upper body gestures. For 7 of the 8 tasks we did not find evidence that that the physical gestures by which the participants chose to communicate with the robot depended on the interaction methodology. Our investigation, while still preliminary, may suggest that video enhanced surveys can be used for human robot interaction design and evaluation, especially in the preliminary stages of defining users' existing mental models and expectations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2020 - Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	248-250
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450370578
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378325
State	Published - 23 Mar 2020
Event	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Mar 2020 → 26 Mar 2020

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Conference	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	23/03/20 → 26/03/20

Keywords

Human-robot communication
Laboratory studies
Online surveys
Scenario-based evaluation
User gestures
Video surveys

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Honig, S & Oron-Gilad, T 2020, Comparing laboratory user studies and video-enhancedweb surveys for eliciting user gestures in human-robot interactions. in HRI 2020 - Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 248-250, 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23/03/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378325

Comparing laboratory user studies and video-enhancedweb surveys for eliciting user gestures in human-robot interactions. / Honig, Shanee; Oron-Gilad, Tal.
HRI 2020 - Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. p. 248-250.

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