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Abstract

Experts from the Robotics Institute were individually interviewed for their insight on interface lessons for fully and semi-autonomous mobile robots. Information was collected on four main themes: challenges, things that seem to work well, things that do not work well, and interface wisdom. The comments were then condensed and pooled into seven high-level categories: safety, remote awareness, control, command inputs, status and state, recovery, and interface design. Classification of expert comments was relatively straightforward in that many interviewees identified consistent material. This suggests that those producing interfaces for fully and semi-autonomous mobile robots should, at the minimum, ensure that they have addressed these broad topics.

Keywords

human-robot interaction, mobile robots, interfaces, autonomous, semi-autonomous

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center and Quality of Life Technology Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): NavLab and Human-Robot Interaction Group

Text Reference

Aaron Steinfeld, "Interface lessons for fully and semi-autonomous mobile robots," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Steinfeld_2004_4685,
   author = "Aaron Steinfeld",
   title = "Interface lessons for fully and semi-autonomous mobile robots",
   booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)",
   year = "2004",
}

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