We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans

In this study participants judged on the relationship between two interacting robots, one of them a mobile robot, the other one a stationary, robot arm-based artistic installation with a high flexibility in orienting its anthropomorphic face. The robots’ behaviour was either (1) weakly correlated th...

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Main Authors: Kroos, Christian, Herath, D.
Other Authors: Michael Beetz
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_23
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25862
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Herath, D.
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description In this study participants judged on the relationship between two interacting robots, one of them a mobile robot, the other one a stationary, robot arm-based artistic installation with a high flexibility in orienting its anthropomorphic face. The robots’ behaviour was either (1) weakly correlated through a loose tracking function, (2) independently random, or (3) independently random, but constrained to the same closely limited area. It was found that the true degree of coupling was reflected on average in the rating responses but that pseudo-random behaviour of one of the robots was judged less random if a relationship between the two robots was present. We argue that such robot-robot interaction experiments hold great value for social robotics as the interaction parameters are under complete control of the researchers.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-258622023-02-27T07:34:30Z We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans Kroos, Christian Herath, D. Michael Beetz Benjamin Johnston Mary-Anne Williams behaviour coupling Robot-robot interaction agency Articulated Head In this study participants judged on the relationship between two interacting robots, one of them a mobile robot, the other one a stationary, robot arm-based artistic installation with a high flexibility in orienting its anthropomorphic face. The robots’ behaviour was either (1) weakly correlated through a loose tracking function, (2) independently random, or (3) independently random, but constrained to the same closely limited area. It was found that the true degree of coupling was reflected on average in the rating responses but that pseudo-random behaviour of one of the robots was judged less random if a relationship between the two robots was present. We argue that such robot-robot interaction experiments hold great value for social robotics as the interaction parameters are under complete control of the researchers. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25862 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_23 Springer restricted
spellingShingle behaviour coupling
Robot-robot interaction
agency
Articulated Head
Kroos, Christian
Herath, D.
We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title_full We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title_fullStr We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title_full_unstemmed We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title_short We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans
title_sort we, robots: correlated behaviour as observed by humans
topic behaviour coupling
Robot-robot interaction
agency
Articulated Head
url http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_23
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25862