TY - GEN
T1 - Crowd sourcing 'approach behavior' control parameters for human-robot interaction
AU - Ferland, Francois
AU - Tapus, Adriana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/8
Y1 - 2017/12/8
N2 - For service robots to be well received in our daily lives, it is desirable that they appear as friendly as possible rather than some unfriendly characters. While a robot's physical appearance influences this perception, its behavior also has an impact. In order to be sure that a specific robot behavior will be correctly perceived, we propose to its potential users to shape the robot's behavior. In this paper, a specific behavior, approaching a person, is evaluated with a Robosoft Kompaï robot. To avoid logistics issues associated with having large groups of novice users performing demonstrations on a physical robot, a web-based approach built around a simulation of the actual robot is proposed. The relationship between the robot and the person is described by the two dimensions of the interpersonal circumplex: Communion (hostile or friendly) and agency (submissive or dominant). The users can adjust three parameters of the approach behavior (i.e., distance, trajectory curvature, and deceleration) in a manner that corresponds the best to the described relationship. An analysis of the data from 69 users is presented, along with a verification experiment done with 10 participants and the real robot. Results suggest that users associate hostile robots with straight trajectories, and submissive robots with smoother deceleration.
AB - For service robots to be well received in our daily lives, it is desirable that they appear as friendly as possible rather than some unfriendly characters. While a robot's physical appearance influences this perception, its behavior also has an impact. In order to be sure that a specific robot behavior will be correctly perceived, we propose to its potential users to shape the robot's behavior. In this paper, a specific behavior, approaching a person, is evaluated with a Robosoft Kompaï robot. To avoid logistics issues associated with having large groups of novice users performing demonstrations on a physical robot, a web-based approach built around a simulation of the actual robot is proposed. The relationship between the robot and the person is described by the two dimensions of the interpersonal circumplex: Communion (hostile or friendly) and agency (submissive or dominant). The users can adjust three parameters of the approach behavior (i.e., distance, trajectory curvature, and deceleration) in a manner that corresponds the best to the described relationship. An analysis of the data from 69 users is presented, along with a verification experiment done with 10 participants and the real robot. Results suggest that users associate hostile robots with straight trajectories, and submissive robots with smoother deceleration.
U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172392
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045844968
T3 - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 785
EP - 790
BT - RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017
Y2 - 28 August 2017 through 1 September 2017
ER -