TY - GEN
T1 - Can users judge the stair-climbing abilities of two-wheeled self-balancing robots?
AU - Jones, Keith S.
AU - Schmidlin, Elizabeth A.
AU - Wheeler, Noah J.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This experiment examined users' abilities to judge whether an autonomous robot can accomplish a given task. It was predicted that 1) participants would differentiate the action-capabilities of short and tall robots, 2) participants would base their judgments on an action-relevant scalar, and 3) participants' judgments would be accurate. All three predictions were supported. This is important because it suggests that users may be able to accurately judge whether an autonomous robot can accomplish a given task without having previously observed that robot perform that task. The ability to do so will be very important as users increasingly ask their robots to perform tasks that the robots' designers may have never considered.
AB - This experiment examined users' abilities to judge whether an autonomous robot can accomplish a given task. It was predicted that 1) participants would differentiate the action-capabilities of short and tall robots, 2) participants would base their judgments on an action-relevant scalar, and 3) participants' judgments would be accurate. All three predictions were supported. This is important because it suggests that users may be able to accurately judge whether an autonomous robot can accomplish a given task without having previously observed that robot perform that task. The ability to do so will be very important as users increasingly ask their robots to perform tasks that the robots' designers may have never considered.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873461858&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1071181312561383
DO - 10.1177/1071181312561383
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873461858
SN - 9780945289418
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1326
EP - 1330
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, HFES 2012
T2 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, HFES 2012
Y2 - 22 October 2012 through 26 October 2012
ER -