TY - GEN
T1 - Implicit Projection
T2 - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2023
AU - Boateng, Andrew
AU - Zhang, Wenlong
AU - Zhang, Yu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Fluent teaming is characterized by tacit interaction without explicit communication. Such interaction requires team situation awareness (TSA) to facilitate. However, existing approaches often rely on explicit communication (such as visual projection) to support TSA, resulting in a paradox. In this paper, we consider implicit projection (IP) to improve TSA for tacit human-robot interaction. IP minimizes interruption and can thus reduce the cognitive demand to maintain TSA in teaming. We introduce a novel process for achieving IP via virtual shadows (referred to as IPS). We compare our method with two baselines that use explicit projection to maintain TSA. Results via human factors studies demonstrate that IPS supports better TSA and significantly improves unsolicited human responsiveness to robots, a key feature of fluent teaming. Participants acknowledged robots implementing IPS more favorable as a teammate. Simultaneously, our results also demonstrate that IPS is comparable to, and sometimes better than, the best-performing baselines on information accuracy.
AB - Fluent teaming is characterized by tacit interaction without explicit communication. Such interaction requires team situation awareness (TSA) to facilitate. However, existing approaches often rely on explicit communication (such as visual projection) to support TSA, resulting in a paradox. In this paper, we consider implicit projection (IP) to improve TSA for tacit human-robot interaction. IP minimizes interruption and can thus reduce the cognitive demand to maintain TSA in teaming. We introduce a novel process for achieving IP via virtual shadows (referred to as IPS). We compare our method with two baselines that use explicit projection to maintain TSA. Results via human factors studies demonstrate that IPS supports better TSA and significantly improves unsolicited human responsiveness to robots, a key feature of fluent teaming. Participants acknowledged robots implementing IPS more favorable as a teammate. Simultaneously, our results also demonstrate that IPS is comparable to, and sometimes better than, the best-performing baselines on information accuracy.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341641
DO - 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341641
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85182522532
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 7945
EP - 7952
BT - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 1 October 2023 through 5 October 2023
ER -