TY - GEN
T1 - Performing a Task Alongside a Robot
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI EA 2024
AU - Yaar, Gal
AU - Oberlender, Agam
AU - Saadon, Nevo Heimann
AU - Zuckerman, Oren
AU - Erel, Hadas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Association for Computing Machinery. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - As robots become common in our environment, they are predicted to perform tasks alongside humans. Social psychology studies indicate that performing tasks next to others leads to social comparison. The tendency to overestimate robots' capabilities is predicted to lead to an upward comparison that can result in negative outcomes. We evaluated whether performing a task alongside a robot would impact participants' sense of control and their overall performance. Participants performed a search task either before or alongside a robotic dog that performed search training. Our findings indicated that performing the task alongside the robot led to a negative impact on sense of control, search efficiency, and performance accuracy. We conclude that robot designers should carefully consider the impact of robots who perform tasks alongside humans, even when there is no collaboration and when there is independence between the performance of the human and that of the robot.
AB - As robots become common in our environment, they are predicted to perform tasks alongside humans. Social psychology studies indicate that performing tasks next to others leads to social comparison. The tendency to overestimate robots' capabilities is predicted to lead to an upward comparison that can result in negative outcomes. We evaluated whether performing a task alongside a robot would impact participants' sense of control and their overall performance. Participants performed a search task either before or alongside a robotic dog that performed search training. Our findings indicated that performing the task alongside the robot led to a negative impact on sense of control, search efficiency, and performance accuracy. We conclude that robot designers should carefully consider the impact of robots who perform tasks alongside humans, even when there is no collaboration and when there is independence between the performance of the human and that of the robot.
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
KW - Overestimation of Robots' Capabilities
KW - Robot
KW - Search Task
KW - Sense of Control
KW - Social Comparison
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85194163851
U2 - 10.1145/3613905.3651055
DO - 10.1145/3613905.3651055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194163851
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -