Exploring Human-Robot Interaction Through Telepresence Board Games

Abstract. This paper presents an experimental test bed for exploring and evaluating human-robot interaction (HRI). Our system is designed around the concept of playing board games involving collaboration between humans and robots in a shared physical environment. Unlike the classic human-versusmachine situation often established in computer-based board games, our test bed takes advantage of the rich interaction opportunities that arise when humans and robots play collaboratively as a team. To facilitate interaction within a shared physical environment, our game is played on a large checkerboard where human and robotic players can be situated and play as game pieces. With meaningful interaction occurring within this controlled setup, various aspects of human-robot interaction can be easily explored and evaluated such as interaction methods and robot behaviour. In this paper we present our test bed which uses a telepresence interface for playing the game and the results of a user study d...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICAT
• Authors: Min Xin, Ehud Sharlin
• Keywords: Human-robot Interaction, ICAT 2006, Physical Environment, Test Bed