Hamacher, A;
Bianchi-Berthouze, NL;
Pipe, AG;
Eder, K;
(2016)
Believing in BERT: Using expressive communication to enhance trust and counteract operational error in physical Human-Robot Interaction.
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Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
(pp. pp. 493-500).
IEEE: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
— Strategies are necessary to mitigate the impact of unexpected behavior in collaborative robotics, and research to develop solutions is lacking. Our aim here was to explore the benefits of an affective interaction, as opposed to a more efficient, less error prone but non-communicative one. The experiment took the form of an omelet-making task, with a wide range of participants interacting directly with BERT2, a humanoid robot assistant. Having significant implications for design, results suggest that efficiency is not the most important aspect of performance for users; a personable, expressive robot was found to be preferable over a more efficient one, despite a considerable trade off in time taken to perform the task. Our findings also suggest that a robot exhibiting human-like characteristics may make users reluctant to ‘hurt its feelings’; they may even lie in order to avoid this.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Believing in BERT: Using expressive communication to enhance trust and counteract operational error in physical Human-Robot Interaction |
| Event: | 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-5090-3930-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745163 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
| Keywords: | Bit error rate, Collaboration, Humanoid robots, Reliability, Electronic mail, Speech recognition |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502146 |
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