Evaluating Feedback Modalities in a Mobile Robot for Telecare

Noa Markfeld, Samuel Olatunji, Yael Edan

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTowards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 22nd Annual Conference, TAROS 2021, Proceedings
EditorsCharles Fox, Junfeng Gao, Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani, Mini Saaj, Marc Hanheide, Simon Parsons
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages136-146
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030891763
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021
Event22th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 8 Sep 202110 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13054 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/09/2110/09/21

Keywords

  • Assistive robots
  • Feedback modalities
  • Human-robot collaboration
  • Secondary task
  • Teleoperation
  • Telerobotic assistance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science (all)

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