TY - GEN
T1 - Automated Planning for Peer-to-peer Teaming and its Evaluation in Remote Human-Robot Interaction
AU - Narayanan, Vignesh
AU - Zhang, Yu
AU - Mendoza, Nathaniel
AU - Kambhampati, Subbarao
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This research is supported in part by the ARO grant W911NF-13-1-0023, and the ONR grants N00014-13-1-0176 and N00014-13-1-0519.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Authors.
PY - 2015/3/2
Y1 - 2015/3/2
N2 - Human factor studies on remote human-robot interaction are often restricted to various forms of supervision, in which the robot is essentially being used as a smart mobile manipulation platform with sensing capabilities. In this study, we investigate the incorporation of a general planning capability into the robot to facilitate peer-to-peer human-robot teaming, in which the human and robot are viewed as teammates that are physically separated. One intriguing question is to what extent humans may feel uncomfortable at such robot autonomy and lose situation awareness, which can potentially reduce teaming performance. Our results suggest that peer-to-peer teaming is preferred by humans and leads to better performance. Furthermore, our results show that peer-to-peer teaming reduces cognitive loads from objective measures (even though subjects did not report this in their subjective evaluations), and it does not reduce situation awareness for short-term tasks.
AB - Human factor studies on remote human-robot interaction are often restricted to various forms of supervision, in which the robot is essentially being used as a smart mobile manipulation platform with sensing capabilities. In this study, we investigate the incorporation of a general planning capability into the robot to facilitate peer-to-peer human-robot teaming, in which the human and robot are viewed as teammates that are physically separated. One intriguing question is to what extent humans may feel uncomfortable at such robot autonomy and lose situation awareness, which can potentially reduce teaming performance. Our results suggest that peer-to-peer teaming is preferred by humans and leads to better performance. Furthermore, our results show that peer-to-peer teaming reduces cognitive loads from objective measures (even though subjects did not report this in their subjective evaluations), and it does not reduce situation awareness for short-term tasks.
KW - Autonomous robot capabilities
KW - Robot design principles
KW - Teamwork and group dynamics
KW - User study/Evaluation
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U2 - 10.1145/2701973.2702042
DO - 10.1145/2701973.2702042
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84969199602
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 161
EP - 162
BT - HRI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2015
Y2 - 2 March 2015 through 5 March 2015
ER -