Human-Robot Interaction

This book offers the first comprehensive yet critical overview of methods used to evaluate interaction between humans and social robots. It reviews commonly used evaluation methods, and shows that they are not always suitable for this purpose. Using representative case studies, the book identifies good and bad practices for evaluating human-robot interactions and proposes new standardized processes as well as recommendations, carefully developed on the basis of intensive discussions between specialists in various HRI-related disciplines, e.g. psychology, ethology, ergonomics, sociology, ethnography, robotics, and computer science. The book is the result of a close, long-standing collaboration between the editors and the invited contributors, including, but not limited to, their inspiring discussions at the workshop on Evaluation Methods Standardization for Human-Robot Interaction (EMSHRI), which have been organized yearly since 2015. By highlighting and weighing good and bad practices in evaluation design for HRI, the book will stimulate the scientific community to search for better solutions, take advantages of interdisciplinary collaborations, and encourage the development of new standards to accommodate the growing presence of robots in the day-to-day and social lives of human beings.

• Human-robot Communication Models
• Statistical Methods for Human-robot Interaction
• Socially Interactive Robots
• Classifying Social Robots
• User Evaluation of Companion Robots
• Robot Prototype Trials
• Psychophysiological Measures in HRI
• Behavioral Measures in HRI
• Task Performance Metrics in HRI
• Large Scale Human Studies in HRI
• Validating Questionnaires for HRI Research
• Evaluating Child-robot Interaction
• Structured Interviews in HRI Research
• UX Evaluation in Social HRI
• Integrative Social Robotics
• Anthropomorphism in HRI
• Robust Experimental Design for HRI
• Long-term HRI
• EMSHRI Workshops

• University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France

  Céline Jost

• IUT de Vannes—Département STID, University of South Brittany, Vannes, France

  Brigitte Le Pévédic

• IDLab—imec—ELIS, Ghent, Belgium

  Tony Belpaeme

• Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems Lab, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA

  Cindy Bethel

• Robotics and Automation Group, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  Dimitrios Chrysostomou

• Research and Knowledge Exchange, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

  Nigel Crook

• Laboratoire Ethologie Animale et Humaine, Université Rennes 1, Paimpont, France

  Marine Grandgeorge

• Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  Nicole Mirnig

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