Empirical Study of Socially-Appropriate Interaction

thumbnail for Empirical Study of Socially-Appropriate Interaction The goal of this project is to investigate how human-robot interaction is best structured for everyday interaction. Possible scenarios include work, home, and other care settings where socially assistive robotics may be used as educational aids, provide aid for persons with disabilities, and act as therapeutic aids for children with developmental disorders. In order for robots to be integrated smoothly into our daily lives, a much clearer understanding of fundamental human-robot interaction principles is required. Human-human interaction demonstrates how collaboration between humans and robots may occur. This project will study how socially appropriate interaction and, importantly socially-inappropriate interaction can affect human-robot collaboration.

In order to explore the nature of collaborative HRI for long-term interaction, REU participants will work with project personnel to develop controlled experiments which isolate individual aspects of collaborative HRI such as conformity, honesty, mistreatment, and deference. Students will examine these factors in a single-session experiment that they design. The results from these experiments will be used to focus multi-session follow-up studies that will be conducted in-between summers. The results of this research project will be a compendium of data demonstrating how humans and robots interact in situations of daily life, such as manufacturing, education, and daily living.

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Publications

  • Carlson, Z., Sweet, T., Rhizor, J., Lucas, H., Poston, J., & Feil-Seifer, D. Team-Building Activities For Heterogeneous Groups of Humans and Robots. In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), page 113-123, Paris, France, Oct 2015. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Carlson, Z., Lemmon, L., Higgins, M., Frank, D., Salek Shahrezaie, R., & Feil-Seifer, D. Perceived mistreatment and emotional capability following aggressive treatment of robots and computers. In International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), 11(5):727-739, Oct 2019. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Sebastian, M., Banisetty, S., & Feil-Seifer, D. Socially-Aware Navigation Planner Using Models of Human-Human Interaction. In International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 405-410, Lisbon, Portugal, Aug 2017. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Banisetty, S., Sebastian, M., & Feil-Seifer, D. Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination To Select Appropriate Behavior. Poster Paper in Annual Graduate Poster Symposium (GSA), Nov 2016. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Poston, J., Lucas, H., Carlson, Z., & Feil-Seifer, D. Does the Safety Demand Characteristic Influence Human-Robot Interaction?. In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), volume 9979, page 850-859, Springer International Publication. Nov 2016. Springer International Publication. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Miller, B. & Feil-Seifer, D. Embodiment, Situatedness and Morphology for Humanoid Interaction, page 1-23. Springer Netherlands, Mar 2017. ( details ) ( .pdf )
  • Rajamohan, V., Scully-Allison, C., Dascalu, S., & Feil-Seifer, D. Factors Influencing The Human Preferred Interaction Distance. In IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, Oct 2019. ( details ) ( .pdf )

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