TY - GEN
T1 - Multimodal communication for guiding a person following robot
AU - Sarne-Fleischmann, V.
AU - Honig, S.
AU - Oron-Gilad, T.
AU - Edan, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
*This research was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space, Israel, Grant # 47897, “Follow me”, the Helmsley Charitable Trust through the Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Center, and the Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering, both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
PY - 2017/12/8
Y1 - 2017/12/8
N2 - Robots designed to support people in different tasks at home and in public areas need to be able to recognize user intentions and operate accordingly. To date, research has focused on developing the technological capabilities of the robot and the mechanism of recognition. Little is known about navigational commands that could be intuitively communicated by people in order to control a robot's movement. A two-part exploratory study was conducted to evaluate how people naturally guide the motion of a robot and whether an existing gesture vocabulary used for human-human communication can be applied to human-robot interaction. Fourteen participants were first asked to demonstrate ten different navigational commands while interacting with a Pioneer robot using a WoZ technique. In the second part of the study participants were asked to identify eight predefined commands from the U.S. Army vocabulary. The results of this study could serve as a baseline for future development of command vocabulary promoting a more natural and intuitive human-robot interaction style.
AB - Robots designed to support people in different tasks at home and in public areas need to be able to recognize user intentions and operate accordingly. To date, research has focused on developing the technological capabilities of the robot and the mechanism of recognition. Little is known about navigational commands that could be intuitively communicated by people in order to control a robot's movement. A two-part exploratory study was conducted to evaluate how people naturally guide the motion of a robot and whether an existing gesture vocabulary used for human-human communication can be applied to human-robot interaction. Fourteen participants were first asked to demonstrate ten different navigational commands while interacting with a Pioneer robot using a WoZ technique. In the second part of the study participants were asked to identify eight predefined commands from the U.S. Army vocabulary. The results of this study could serve as a baseline for future development of command vocabulary promoting a more natural and intuitive human-robot interaction style.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045837322&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172428
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172428
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045837322
T3 - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 1018
EP - 1023
BT - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017
Y2 - 28 August 2017 through 1 September 2017
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