TY - GEN
T1 - Communicating Directional Intent in Robot Navigation using Projection Indicators
AU - Shrestha, Moondeep C.
AU - Onishi, Tomoya
AU - Kobayashi, Ayano
AU - Kamezaki, Mitsuhiro
AU - Sugano, Shigeki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/11/6
Y1 - 2018/11/6
N2 - Smooth and efficient robot navigation among humans is a crucial requirement for successful integration of robots in human society. Towards this end, an indispensable characteristic of robot action is legibility while communicating its intention. However, unlike humans, present robots cannot convey its intention through human-like non-verbal communication. This paper explores the use of projection indicators for communicating directional intent of a robot across three different 'crossing scenarios' as a means of overcoming the shortcomings of the robot's non-verbal communication abilities. The results of the study show statistically significant improvement in perceived feelings of the measured attributes when using the auxiliary communication method. The studied method also improves cooperation from the participants. Nevertheless, the improvement in perceived feeling does not necessarily replicate in terms of smoothness across all the scenarios.
AB - Smooth and efficient robot navigation among humans is a crucial requirement for successful integration of robots in human society. Towards this end, an indispensable characteristic of robot action is legibility while communicating its intention. However, unlike humans, present robots cannot convey its intention through human-like non-verbal communication. This paper explores the use of projection indicators for communicating directional intent of a robot across three different 'crossing scenarios' as a means of overcoming the shortcomings of the robot's non-verbal communication abilities. The results of the study show statistically significant improvement in perceived feelings of the measured attributes when using the auxiliary communication method. The studied method also improves cooperation from the participants. Nevertheless, the improvement in perceived feeling does not necessarily replicate in terms of smoothness across all the scenarios.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525528
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525528
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058112927
T3 - RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 746
EP - 751
BT - RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2018
Y2 - 27 August 2018 through 31 August 2018
ER -