Do as I say : exploring human response to a predictable and unpredictable robot

Omar Mubin; Christoph Bartneck

doi:10.1145/2783446.2783582

Do as I say : exploring human response to a predictable and unpredictable robot

Omar Mubin
, Christoph Bartneck

School of Computer, Data & Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

Humans are known to feel engaged and at the same time apprehensive when presented with unpredictable behaviour of other agents or humans. Predictable behaviour is thought to be reliable but boring. We argue that is imperative to evaluate human response to (un)predictable robots for a better understanding of Human Robot Interaction Scenarios, manipulated across robot embodiment. The results of our controlled experiment with 23 participants showed that pre- dictable robot behaviour resulted in more patience on behalf of the user and robot embodiment had no signifficant effect. In conclusion, we also discuss the importance of robot role on the perception of predictability in robot behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the British HCI Conference 2015, July 13-17, 2015, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Publisher	ACM Press
Pages	110-116
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781450336437
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783582
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	British Human Computer Interaction Conference - Duration: 13 Jul 2015 → …

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Conference	British Human Computer Interaction Conference
Period	13/07/15 → …

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computing
human engineering
human-robot interaction

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