Cargando…
The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception
Robots that are designed to work in close proximity to humans are required to move and act in a way that ensures social acceptance by their users. Hence, a robot's proximal behavior toward a human is a main concern, especially in human-robot interaction that relies on relatively close proximity...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805831/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501241 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00074 |
_version_ | 1783636390501679104 |
---|---|
author | Siebert, Felix Wilhelm Klein, Jacobe Rötting, Matthias Roesler, Eileen |
author_facet | Siebert, Felix Wilhelm Klein, Jacobe Rötting, Matthias Roesler, Eileen |
author_sort | Siebert, Felix Wilhelm |
collection | PubMed |
description | Robots that are designed to work in close proximity to humans are required to move and act in a way that ensures social acceptance by their users. Hence, a robot's proximal behavior toward a human is a main concern, especially in human-robot interaction that relies on relatively close proximity. This study investigated how the distance and lateral offset of “Follow Me” robots influences how they are perceived by humans. To this end, a Follow Me robot was built and tested in a user study for a number of subjective variables. A total of 18 participants interacted with the robot, with the robot's lateral offset and distance varied in a within-subject design. After each interaction, participants were asked to rate the movement of the robot on the dimensions of comfort, expectancy conformity, human likeness, safety, trust, and unobtrusiveness. Results show that users generally prefer robot following distances in the social space, without a lateral offset. However, we found a main influence of affinity for technology, as those participants with a high affinity for technology preferred closer following distances than participants with low affinity for technology. The results of this study show the importance of user-adaptiveness in human-robot-interaction. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-7805831 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2020 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-78058312021-01-25 The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception Siebert, Felix Wilhelm Klein, Jacobe Rötting, Matthias Roesler, Eileen Front Robot AI Robotics and AI Robots that are designed to work in close proximity to humans are required to move and act in a way that ensures social acceptance by their users. Hence, a robot's proximal behavior toward a human is a main concern, especially in human-robot interaction that relies on relatively close proximity. This study investigated how the distance and lateral offset of “Follow Me” robots influences how they are perceived by humans. To this end, a Follow Me robot was built and tested in a user study for a number of subjective variables. A total of 18 participants interacted with the robot, with the robot's lateral offset and distance varied in a within-subject design. After each interaction, participants were asked to rate the movement of the robot on the dimensions of comfort, expectancy conformity, human likeness, safety, trust, and unobtrusiveness. Results show that users generally prefer robot following distances in the social space, without a lateral offset. However, we found a main influence of affinity for technology, as those participants with a high affinity for technology preferred closer following distances than participants with low affinity for technology. The results of this study show the importance of user-adaptiveness in human-robot-interaction. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7805831/ /pubmed/33501241 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00074 Text en Copyright © 2020 Siebert, Klein, Rötting and Roesler. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Robotics and AI Siebert, Felix Wilhelm Klein, Jacobe Rötting, Matthias Roesler, Eileen The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title | The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title_full | The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title_short | The Influence of Distance and Lateral Offset of Follow Me Robots on User Perception |
title_sort | influence of distance and lateral offset of follow me robots on user perception |
topic | Robotics and AI |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805831/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33501241 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00074 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT siebertfelixwilhelm theinfluenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT kleinjacobe theinfluenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT rottingmatthias theinfluenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT roeslereileen theinfluenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT siebertfelixwilhelm influenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT kleinjacobe influenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT rottingmatthias influenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception AT roeslereileen influenceofdistanceandlateraloffsetoffollowmerobotsonuserperception |