Abstract
The detailed description of behaviour of the interacting parties is becoming more and more important in human–robot interaction (HRI), especially in social robotics (SR). With the rise in the number of publications, there is a substantial need for the objective and comprehensive description of implemented robot behaviours to ensure comparability and reproducibility of the studies. Ethograms and the meticulous analysis of behaviour was introduced long ago in animal behaviour research (cf. ethology). The adoption of this method in SR and HRI can ensure the desired clarity over robot behaviours, while also providing added benefits during robot development, behaviour modelling and analysis of HRI experiments. We provide an overview of the possible uses and advantages of ethograms in HRI, and propose a general framework for describing behaviour which can be adapted to the requirements of specific studies.
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The research described in this article has been supported by the ELKH-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group (01031), the Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA K143595) and the National Talent Programme (NTP-NFTÖ-21-B-0319). Project No. TKP-6-6/PALY-2021 has been implemented with the support provided by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, financed under the TKP2021-NVA funding scheme.
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Korcsok, B., Korondi, P. How do you do the things that you do? Ethological approach to the description of robot behaviour. BIOLOGIA FUTURA 74, 253–279 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42977-023-00178-z
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