What Communication Modalities Do Users Prefer in Real Time HRI?

2016/06/13 by Novanda, Ori, Salem, Maha, Saunders, Joe +2
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Robotics (cs.RO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.03992

Abstract

This paper investigates users' preferred interaction modalities when playing an imitation game with KASPAR, a small child-sized humanoid robot. The study involved 16 adult participants teaching the robot to mime a nursery rhyme via one of three interaction modalities in a real-time Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) experiment: voice, guiding touch and visual demonstration. The findings suggest that the users appeared to have no preference in terms of human effort for completing the task. However, there was a significant difference in human enjoyment preferences of input modality and a marginal difference in the robot's perceived ability to imitate.

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