The impact of the contingency of robot feedback on HRI

Kerstin Fischer; Katrin Lohan; Joe Saunders; Chrystopher Nehaniv; Britta Wrede; Katharina Rohlfing

doi:10.1109/CTS.2013.6567231

The impact of the contingency of robot feedback on HRI

Kerstin Fischer, Katrin Lohan, Joe Saunders, Chrystopher Nehaniv, Britta Wrede, Katharina Rohlfing

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the impact the contingency of robot feedback may have on the quality of verbal human-robot interaction. In order to assess not only what the effects are but also what they are caused by, we carried out experiments in which naïve participants instructed the humanoid robot iCub on a set of shapes and on a stacking task in two conditions, once with socially contingent, nonverbal feedback implemented in response to different gaze and demonstrating behaviors of the human tutor, and once with non-contingent, saliency-based feedback. The results of the analysis of participants' linguistic behaviors in the two conditions show that contingency has an impact on the complexity and the pre-structuring of the task for the robot, i.e. on the participants' tutoring behaviors. Contingency thus plays a considerable role for learning by demonstration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	210-217
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467364041
ISBN (Print)	9781467364034
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567231
Publication status	Published - 25 Jul 2013
Event	2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems - San Diego, United States Duration: 20 May 2013 → 24 May 2013

Conference

Conference	2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
Abbreviated title	CTS 2013
Country	United States
City	San Diego
Period	20/05/13 → 24/05/13

Keywords

contingency
learning by demonstration
robot as social actor
robot feedback
robot response
timing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Control and Systems Engineering

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Fischer, K, Lohan, K, Saunders, J, Nehaniv, C, Wrede, B & Rohlfing, K 2013, The impact of the contingency of robot feedback on HRI. in 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS). IEEE, pp. 210-217, 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, San Diego, United States, 20/05/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567231

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