Investigating the Effects of Social Interactive Behaviours of a Robot on People’s Trust During a Navigation Task

Alessandra Rossi, Fernando Garcia, Arturo Cruz Maya, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay, Michael L. Walters, Amit K. Pandey

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    Abstract

    Identifying the roles and the specific social behaviours that evoke human trust towards robots is key for user acceptance. Specially, while performing tasks in the real world, such as navigation or guidance, the predictability of robot motion and predictions of user intentions facilitate interaction. We present a user study in which a humanoid-robot guided participants around a human populated environment, avoiding collisions while following a socially acceptable trajectory. We investigated which behaviours performed by a humanoid robot during a guidance task exhibited better social acceptance by people, and how robot behaviours influence their trust in a robot to safely complete a guiding task. We concluded that in general, people prefer and trust a robot that exhibits social behaviours such as talking and maintaining an appropriate safe distance from obstacles.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTowards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 20th Annual Conference, TAROS 2019, Proceedings
    EditorsKaspar Althoefer, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Ketao Zhang
    PublisherSpringer Nature
    Pages349-361
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030238070
    ISBN (Print)9783030238063
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Jun 2019
    Event20th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2019 - London, United Kingdom
    Duration: 3 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11649 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference20th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityLondon
    Period3/07/195/07/19

    Keywords

    • Human-robot interaction
    • Robot companion
    • Robot social navigation
    • Social robotics
    • Trust in robots

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