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Revealing unexpected effects of rescue robots’ team-membership in a virtual environment

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In urban search and rescue (USAR) situations resources are limited and workload is high. Robots that act as\nteam players instead of tools could help in these situations. A Virtual Reality (VR) experiment was set up to test\nif team performance of a human-robot team increases when the robot act as such a team player. Three robot\nsettings were tested ranging from the robot as a tool to the robot as a team player. Unexpectedly, team\nperformance seemed to be the best for the tool condition. Two side-effects of increasing robot’s teammembership\ncould explain this result: mental workload increased for the humans who had to work with the\nteam-playing robot, whereas the tendency to share information was reduced between these humans. Future\nresearch should, thus, focus on team-memberships that improve communication and reduce cognitive workload.

Source: TU/e Research Portal

Authors: Corine Horsch, Nanja Smets, Neerincx, Raymond H. Cuijpers

Institution: Delft University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, FP7 Information and Communication Technologies

Award: Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments

OpenAlex ID: W1587103188

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