A methodology to assess the acceptability of human-robot collaboration using virtual reality
A methodology to assess the acceptability of human-robot collaboration using virtual reality
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使用虚拟现实评估人机协作可接受性的方法
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2013
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P. Fuchs
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V. Weistroffer;Alexis Paljic;Lucile Callebert;P. Fuchs
机器人正越来越多地出现在我们的日常生活中：它们已经被用来做家务、做陪伴活动，很快它们将被用来协助人类并在工作中与人类合作。出于人体工程学和效率的目的，业界已经对人类-机器人协作进行了研究，但更多的是从安全性的角度而不是从可接受性的角度。在这项工作中，我们重点研究了人们在协作任务中如何感知机器人，并提出使用虚拟现实作为仿真环境来测试不同的参数，通过让用户与虚拟机器人协作来实现。实现了一个简单的用例来比较不同的机器人外观和不同的机器人动作。使用问卷和生理测量来评估每个条件的可接受程度，并进行用户研究。结果表明，机器人对动作的感知依赖于机器人的外观，在协作任务中，一个更拟人化的机器人，无论是外观还是动作，都不一定会被用户更好地接受。最后，这个初步的用例也是保证使用这种方法的机会-基于虚拟现实、问卷和生理测量-用于未来的研究。
Robots are becoming more and more present in our everyday life: they are already used for domestic tasks, for companionship activities, and soon they will be used to assist humans and collaborate with them in their work. Human-robot collaboration has already been studied in the industry, for ergonomics and efficiency purposes, but more from a safety than from an acceptability point of view. In this work, we focused on how people perceive robots in a collaboration task and we proposed to use virtual reality as a simulation environment to test different parameters, by making users collaborate with virtual robots. A simple use case was implemented to compare different robot appearances and different robot movements. Questionnaires and physiological measures were used to assess the acceptability level of each condition with a user study. The results showed that the perception of robot movements depended on robot appearance and that a more anthropomorphic robot, both in its appearance and movements, was not necessarily better accepted by the users in a collaboration task. Finally, this preliminary use case was also the opportunity to guarantee the relevance of using such a methodology --- based on virtual reality, questionnaires and physiological measures --- for future studies.