3 accepted papers
Human memory of a robot’s competence, and resulting subjective perceptions of that robot, are influenced by numerous cognitive biases. One class of cognitive bias deals with the ordering of items or interactions: information presented last among a grouping is most salient in memory formation (recenc…
Ensuring the safety and efficiency of human workers in environments shared with autonomous robots is of paramount importance. In this work we examine the behavior and attitudes of participants performing tasks in a noisy environment collocated with an autonomous quadcopter robot. Visual communicatio…
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) enables novice users to teach robots new skills. However, many LfD methods do not facilitate skill maintenance and adaptation. Changes in task requirements or in the environment often reveal the lack of resiliency and adaptability in the skill model. To overcome the…