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A World with RobotsPerceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context

A World with Robots: Perceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context [Due to advances in technology, the world around us contains an increasing number of robots, virtual agents, and other intelligent systems. These systems all have a certain degree of autonomy. For the people who interact with an intelligent system it is important to obtain a good understanding of its degree of autonomy: what tasks can the system perform autonomously and to what extent? In this paper we therefore present a study on how a system’s characteristics affect people’s perception of its autonomy. This was investigated by asking fire-fighters to rate the autonomy of a number of search and rescue robots in different shapes and situations. In this paper, we identify the following seven aspects of perceived autonomy: time interval of interaction, obedience, informativeness, task complexity, task implication, physical appearance, and physical distance to human operator. The study showed that increased disobedience, task complexity and physical distance of a robot can increase perceived autonomy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A World with RobotsPerceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of Appearance and Context

Part of the Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering Book Series (volume 84)
Editors: Aldinhas Ferreira, Maria Isabel; Silva Sequeira, Joao; Tokhi, Mohammad Osman; E. Kadar, Endre; Virk, Gurvinder Singh
Harbers, Maaike; Peeters, Marieke M. M.; Neerincx, Mark A.
Springer Journals — Jan 7, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-46665-1
Pages
19 –33
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_2
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Abstract

[Due to advances in technology, the world around us contains an increasing number of robots, virtual agents, and other intelligent systems. These systems all have a certain degree of autonomy. For the people who interact with an intelligent system it is important to obtain a good understanding of its degree of autonomy: what tasks can the system perform autonomously and to what extent? In this paper we therefore present a study on how a system’s characteristics affect people’s perception of its autonomy. This was investigated by asking fire-fighters to rate the autonomy of a number of search and rescue robots in different shapes and situations. In this paper, we identify the following seven aspects of perceived autonomy: time interval of interaction, obedience, informativeness, task complexity, task implication, physical appearance, and physical distance to human operator. The study showed that increased disobedience, task complexity and physical distance of a robot can increase perceived autonomy.]

Published: Jan 7, 2017

Keywords: Autonomy; Robots; Intelligent agents; Intelligent systems; Robot design; User expectations; Human-robot interaction; Perceived autonomy

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