TY - GEN
T1 - Communicating robot intentions: Usability study of a socially-Aware mobile robot
AU - Lopez Alaguero, Sara
AU - Chirtoaca, Andrei
AU - Chrysostomou, Dimitrios
AU - Nalpantidis, Lazaros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Mobile robots need to understand human actions and produce socially accepted behaviors. In this paper, we address this issue and propose a method for mobile robots to communicate their intentions to humans. We also recognize the need for robots to move in a social manner by respecting the personal space of humans and not interrupting their interactions with other people or objects in the environment. We present a retrofitted MiR100 equipped with an RGB-D camera and a video projector. The RGB-D camera is used in human-Aware navigation to recognize humans and predict their trajectories so as for the robot to react proactively to human actions, creating a safe and seamless human-robot collaboration. Here, the video projector acts as a communication channel between the robot and humans, as it transmits the robot's motion intentions. In order to evaluate the robot's ability to communicate its intentions, we performed extensive human-centered HRI experiments where 30 participants interacted with the robot integrated with socially aware navigation and a video projector. Our experiments demonstrated that the social acceptance of the mobile robot was favored by the use of human-Aware navigation and its combination with the video projector raised the mobile robot's usability and comfort by 6% and 12%, respectively.
AB - Mobile robots need to understand human actions and produce socially accepted behaviors. In this paper, we address this issue and propose a method for mobile robots to communicate their intentions to humans. We also recognize the need for robots to move in a social manner by respecting the personal space of humans and not interrupting their interactions with other people or objects in the environment. We present a retrofitted MiR100 equipped with an RGB-D camera and a video projector. The RGB-D camera is used in human-Aware navigation to recognize humans and predict their trajectories so as for the robot to react proactively to human actions, creating a safe and seamless human-robot collaboration. Here, the video projector acts as a communication channel between the robot and humans, as it transmits the robot's motion intentions. In order to evaluate the robot's ability to communicate its intentions, we performed extensive human-centered HRI experiments where 30 participants interacted with the robot integrated with socially aware navigation and a video projector. Our experiments demonstrated that the social acceptance of the mobile robot was favored by the use of human-Aware navigation and its combination with the video projector raised the mobile robot's usability and comfort by 6% and 12%, respectively.
U2 - 10.1109/IST59124.2023.10355723
DO - 10.1109/IST59124.2023.10355723
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85182742452
SN - 979-8-3503-3084-7
T3 - IST 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings
BT - Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques
Y2 - 17 October 2023 through 19 October 2023
ER -