TY - GEN
T1 - Task influence on perceptions of a person-following robot and following-angle preferences
AU - Honig, Shanee
AU - Edan, Yael
AU - Zaichyk, Hanan
AU - Oron-Gilad, Tal
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Israel, Grant # 3-12060, "Follow me", and partially supported by the Helmsley Charitable Trust through the Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Center, and by the Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering, both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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PY - 2019/5/2
Y1 - 2019/5/2
N2 - To improve the design of a person-following robot, this preliminary study evaluates the influence of user tasks on human preferences of the robot's following angle and human perceptions of the robot's behavior. 32 participants were followed by a robot at three different following angles twice, once with an auditory task and once with a visual task, for a total of six walking trials. Results indicate that the type of user task influences participant preferences and perceptions. For the auditory task, as the following angle increased, participants were more satisfied with the robot's following behavior. For the visual task, as the following angle increased, participants were less satisfied with the robot's following behavior. In addition, participants were more perceptive of the robot's following behavior for the auditory task compared to the visual task. Additional research is required to better understand whether human preferences and perceptions depend on task modality or task complexity.
AB - To improve the design of a person-following robot, this preliminary study evaluates the influence of user tasks on human preferences of the robot's following angle and human perceptions of the robot's behavior. 32 participants were followed by a robot at three different following angles twice, once with an auditory task and once with a visual task, for a total of six walking trials. Results indicate that the type of user task influences participant preferences and perceptions. For the auditory task, as the following angle increased, participants were more satisfied with the robot's following behavior. For the visual task, as the following angle increased, participants were less satisfied with the robot's following behavior. In addition, participants were more perceptive of the robot's following behavior for the auditory task compared to the visual task. Additional research is required to better understand whether human preferences and perceptions depend on task modality or task complexity.
KW - Following angle
KW - Person-following robot
KW - Robot behavior
KW - User task
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067312304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3290607.3313087
DO - 10.1145/3290607.3313087
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067312304
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -