TY - GEN
T1 - Improving the Interaction of Older Adults with a Socially Assistive Table Setting Robot
AU - Olatunji, Samuel
AU - Markfeld, Noa
AU - Gutman, Dana
AU - Givati, Shai
AU - Sarne-Fleischmann, Vardit
AU - Oron-Gilad, Tal
AU - Edan, Yael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This study provides user-studies aimed at exploring factors influencing the interaction between older adults and a robotic table setting assistant. The influence of level of automation (LOA) and level of transparency (LOT) on the quality of the interaction was considered. Results revealed that the interaction effect of LOA and LOT significantly influenced the interaction. A low LOA which required the user to control some of the actions of the robot influenced the older adults to participate more in the interaction when the LOT was high (more information) compared to situations with low LOT (less information) and high LOA (more robot autonomy). Even though, the higher LOA influenced more fluency in the interaction, the lower LOA encouraged a more collaborative form of interaction which is a priority in the design of robotic aids for older adult users. The results provide some insights into shared control designs which accommodates the preferences of the older adult users as they interact with robotic aids such as the table setting robot used in this study.
AB - This study provides user-studies aimed at exploring factors influencing the interaction between older adults and a robotic table setting assistant. The influence of level of automation (LOA) and level of transparency (LOT) on the quality of the interaction was considered. Results revealed that the interaction effect of LOA and LOT significantly influenced the interaction. A low LOA which required the user to control some of the actions of the robot influenced the older adults to participate more in the interaction when the LOT was high (more information) compared to situations with low LOT (less information) and high LOA (more robot autonomy). Even though, the higher LOA influenced more fluency in the interaction, the lower LOA encouraged a more collaborative form of interaction which is a priority in the design of robotic aids for older adult users. The results provide some insights into shared control designs which accommodates the preferences of the older adult users as they interact with robotic aids such as the table setting robot used in this study.
KW - Collaborative robots
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Levels of automation
KW - Shared control
KW - Transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076578228&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_53
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_53
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076578228
SN - 9783030358877
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 568
EP - 577
BT - Social Robotics - 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Salichs, Miguel A.
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
A2 - Barakova, Emilia Ivanova
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Wagner, Alan R.
A2 - Castro-González, Álvaro
A2 - He, Hongsheng
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019
Y2 - 26 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
ER -