Investigating Human-Robot Trust in Emergency Scenarios: Methodological Lessons Learned

Robinette, Paul; Wagner, Alan R.; Howard, Ayanna M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7668-0_8

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“…Although the presence of an evacuation robot might alleviate some of the challenges of emergency evacuation, it is possible, however, that the use of robots could cause other issues. For example, our research has demonstrated that evacuees tend to overtrust an evacuation robot (Robinette et al, 2016c). Hence, they may follow a broken or lost robot, putting themselves at greater risk.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Moreover, for real-world experiments, creating a convincing sham emergency is difficult given that subjects know that they are participating in an experiment. In the past we have, for example, used smoke machines to fill rooms and hallways with smoke in order to make the emergency convincing (Robinette et al, 2016c). But creating convincing sham emergencies that do not actually endanger the participant and are acceptable to an institutional review board is challenging.…”

Section: Simulation Versus Real-world Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Robot-Guided Evacuation as a Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction Research

Wagner

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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This paper conceptualizes the problem of emergency evacuation as a paradigm for investigating human-robot interaction. We argue that emergency evacuation offers unique and important perspectives on human-robot interaction while also demanding close attention to the ethical ramifications of the technologies developed. We present a series of approaches for developing emergency evacuation robots and detail several essential design considerations. This paper concludes with a discussion of the ethical implications of emergency evacuation robots and a roadmap for their development, implementation, and evaluation.

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confidence: 89%

Section: Simulation Versus Real-world Experimentsmentioning

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Robot-Guided Evacuation as a Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction Research

Wagner

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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“…AV ownership was investigated by several researchers. AVs are expected to be expensive, and in the most optimistic scenario, only 35% of the survey respondents were willing to use shared AVs, while others prefer personal ownership [30,31]. is is partly understandable, given the convenience of accessibility and being able to leave items in the vehicle.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, shared vehicles are predicted to be maintained better, to have higher security and to have less liability [27]. Regardless, Robinette et al [31] showed that AV technology would reduce ownership by 1.1 vehicle but would result in a 13% increase in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as unoccupied vehicles.…”

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Exploring the Potential of Using Privately-Owned, Self-Driving Autonomous Vehicles for Evacuation Assistance

Shirley

Padmanabha

Murray‐Tuite

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The potential use of privately-owned autonomous vehicles (AVs) for the evacuation of carless households threatened by hurricanes is underexplored. Based on 518 original survey responses from South Carolina (SC) residents, an ordered logistic model was developed to determine the willingness of individuals to temporarily share their AVs for evacuation without their presence. The model results indicated that respondents who (a) were unemployed, (b) had experience giving disaster relief assistance, (c) took regular religious trips and were more comfortable with AVs (d) delivering packages and (e) being purchased and shared for income in the next five years were more willing to share for evacuation. Respondents who (a) were aged 65 or older, (b) had income below $ 15,000 per year, and (c) had less than two social media accounts were less willing to share. The model was applied to a state-wide synthetic population to simulate a disaster scenario in SC under different AV market penetration ( p ) scenarios to determine the potential use of AVs for evacuation assistance. Monte Carlo simulation results indicated that the percentage of households that can be evacuated increased linearly with respect to p , by 5.5 % for every 1 % increase in p until p was nearly 20 % . When p was 30 % or higher, the number of shared AVs was sufficient to evacuate all households in need. Therefore, in SC, if privately-owned AVs are widely available, they could serve as a viable alternative or be used to supplement the traditional evacuation programs that rely on buses.

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“…There are not many research studies on how a robot can initiate communication and maintain a proper dialog with the human, particularly in applications where interactive user interfaces are not feasible (Fulton et al, 2019). Furthermore, effective and efficient ways of assessing risks in human-robot dialogue (Robinette et al, 2016;Sattar and Dudek, 2011) is another potential research problem in this domain.…”

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Person-following by autonomous robots: A categorical overview

Islam

Hong

Sattar

2019

The International Journal of Robotics Research

111

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A wide range of human-robot collaborative applications in diverse domains such as manufacturing, health care, the entertainment industry, and social interactions, require an autonomous robot to follow its human companion. Different working environments and applications pose diverse challenges by adding constraints on the choice of sensors, the degree of autonomy, and dynamics of a person-following robot. Researchers have addressed these challenges in many ways and contributed to the development of a large body of literature. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the literature by categorizing different aspects of person-following by autonomous robots. Also, the corresponding operational challenges are identified based on various design choices for ground, underwater, and aerial scenarios. In addition, state-of-the-art methods for perception, planning, control, and interaction are elaborately discussed and their applicability in varied operational scenarios are presented. Then, some of the prominent methods are qualitatively compared, corresponding practicalities are illustrated, and their feasibility is analyzed for various usecases. Furthermore, several prospective application areas are identified, and open problems are highlighted for future research.

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Investigating Human-Robot Trust in Emergency Scenarios: Methodological Lessons Learned

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Robot-Guided Evacuation as a Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction Research

Robot-Guided Evacuation as a Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction Research

Exploring the Potential of Using Privately-Owned, Self-Driving Autonomous Vehicles for Evacuation Assistance

Person-following by autonomous robots: A categorical overview

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