Perceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context

Harbers, Maaike; Peeters, Marieke; Neerincx,

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_2

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“…When all questions were answered, the robot would thank the participant. The modes of behavior for the robot toward the patient were decided to be aiming at cheerfulness, politeness, responsibility, intellect, logic, helpfulness, personalization, trust, and convenience [22][23][24].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Feasibility Study of a Social Robot Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measurements from Older Adults

Boumans

Meulen

Hindriks

et al. 2019

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an essential means for collecting information on the effectiveness of hospital care as perceived by the patients themselves. Especially older adult patients often require help from nursing staff to successfully complete PROMs, but this staff already has a high work load. Therefore, a social robot is introduced to perform the PROM questioning and recording task. The study objective was to design a multimodal dialogue for a social robot to acquire PROMs for older patients. The primary outcomes were the effectiveness, the efficiency, and the subjective usability as perceived by older adults of acquiring PROMs by a social robot. The robot dialogue design included a personalized welcome, PROM questions, confirmation requests, affective statements, use of a support screen on the robot displaying the answer options, and accompanying robot gestures. The design was tested in a crossover study with 31 community-dwelling persons aged 70 years or above. Answers obtained with the robot were compared with those obtained by a questionnaire taken by humans. First results indicated that PROM data collection in older persons may be carried out effectively and efficiently by a social robot. The robot's subjective usability was on average scored as 80.1 (± 11.6) on a scale from 0 to 100. The recorded data reliability was 99.6%. A first relevant step has been made on the design trajectory for a robot to obtain PROMs from older adults. Practice variation in subjective usability scores still asks for technical dialogue improvements.

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Section: Design Of the Prom Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Feasibility Study of a Social Robot Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measurements from Older Adults

Boumans

Meulen

Hindriks

et al. 2019

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…The appearance of social robots can be divided into four categories: anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, caricatured, or functional [15]. It was found that the appearance factor has a strong effect on the perception of a robot's abilities, and it might also be linked to the expectation of its capabilities [16,17]. Each of the four categories for a social robot's appearance has been perceived to be more suitable for specific tasks [18].…”

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Design of a Huggable Social Robot with Affective Expressions Using Projected Images

Nuñez¹,

Hirokawa²,

Suzuki³

2018

Applied Sciences

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We introduce Pepita, a caricatured huggable robot capable of sensing and conveying affective expressions by means of tangible gesture recognition and projected avatars. This study covers the design criteria, implementation and performance evaluation of the different characteristics of the form and function of this robot. The evaluation involves: (1) the exploratory study of the different features of the device, (2) design and performance evaluation of sensors for affective interaction employing touch, and (3) design and implementation of affective feedback using projected avatars. Results showed that the hug detection worked well for the intended application and the affective expressions made with projected avatars were appropriated for this robot. The questionnaires analyzing users’ perception provide us with insights to guide the future designs of similar interfaces.

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“…From the one hand, robotic systems based on torque sensing and actuation or variable impedance mechanisms have been developed to make them compliant to their surroundings (Albu-Schaffer et al 2003;Tsagarakis et al 2016). On the software level instead, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the perception autonomy of the robots, to capture the effects of appearance and context (Kotseruba et al 2016;Harbers et al 2017).…”

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A method for autonomous robotic manipulation through exploratory interactions with uncertain environments

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Expanding robot autonomy can deliver functional flexibility and enable fast deployment of robots in challenging and unstructured environments. In this direction, significant advances have been recently made in visual-perception driven autonomy, which is mainly due to the availability of rich sensory data-sets. However, current robots’ physical interaction autonomy levels still remain at a basic level. Towards providing a systematic approach to this problem, this paper presents a new context-aware and adaptive method that allows a robotic platform to interact with unknown environments. In particular, a multi-axes self-tuning impedance controller is introduced to regulate quasi-static parameters of the robot based on previous experience in interacting with similar environments and the real-time sensory data. The proposed method is also capable of differentiating internal and external disruptions, and responding to them accordingly and appropriately. An agricultural experiment with different deformable material is presented to validate robot interaction autonomy improvements, and the capability of the proposed methodology in detecting and responding to unexpected events (e.g., faults).

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Perceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

A Feasibility Study of a Social Robot Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measurements from Older Adults

A Feasibility Study of a Social Robot Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measurements from Older Adults

Design of a Huggable Social Robot with Affective Expressions Using Projected Images

A method for autonomous robotic manipulation through exploratory interactions with uncertain environments

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