TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating Feedback Modalities in a Mobile Robot for Telecare
AU - Markfeld, Noa
AU - Olatunji, Samuel
AU - Edan, Yael
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the EU funded Innovative Training Network (ITN) in the Marie Sk lodowska-Curie People Programme (Horizon2020): SOCRATES (Social Cognitive Robotics in a European Society training research network), grant agreement number 721619. Partial support was provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev through the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Initiative, the Marcus Endowment Fund, and the W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering.
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PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Different feedback modalities while using a mobile robot in a telecare task were compared. An experimental setup in which caregivers teleoperated a robot to perform several tasks remotely, outside the immediate environment of a patient, while they simultaneously managed other secondary tasks was designed. The robot provided feedback related to status information on the robot’s path and on tasks it performed. Two feedback modalities (textual and audio) and their combination were investigated to determine the most suitable for a remote operator in a simulated telecare task with secondary tasks. Additionally, the influence of the secondary task location on interaction was evaluated. Experiments with 40 participants with a teleoperated mobile robot revealed that the interaction was influenced mainly by the feedback modality, while the secondary task location had less influence. The feedback modality that combined textual and audio feedback yielded a better outcome as compared to the other single feedback modalities.
AB - Different feedback modalities while using a mobile robot in a telecare task were compared. An experimental setup in which caregivers teleoperated a robot to perform several tasks remotely, outside the immediate environment of a patient, while they simultaneously managed other secondary tasks was designed. The robot provided feedback related to status information on the robot’s path and on tasks it performed. Two feedback modalities (textual and audio) and their combination were investigated to determine the most suitable for a remote operator in a simulated telecare task with secondary tasks. Additionally, the influence of the secondary task location on interaction was evaluated. Experiments with 40 participants with a teleoperated mobile robot revealed that the interaction was influenced mainly by the feedback modality, while the secondary task location had less influence. The feedback modality that combined textual and audio feedback yielded a better outcome as compared to the other single feedback modalities.
KW - Assistive robots
KW - Feedback modalities
KW - Human-robot collaboration
KW - Secondary task
KW - Teleoperation
KW - Telerobotic assistance
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119336939
SN - 9783030891763
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 136
EP - 146
BT - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 22nd Annual Conference, TAROS 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Fox, Charles
A2 - Gao, Junfeng
A2 - Ghalamzan Esfahani, Amir
A2 - Saaj, Mini
A2 - Hanheide, Marc
A2 - Parsons, Simon
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 22th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2021
Y2 - 8 September 2021 through 10 September 2021
ER -