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How a Robot’s Social Credibility Affects Safety Performance

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2019)

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This paper connects the two domains of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and safety engineering to ensure that the design of interactive robots considers the effect of social behaviours on safety functionality. We conducted a preliminary user study with a social robot that alerts participants during a puzzle-solving task to a safety hazard. Our study findings show an indicative trend where users who were interrupted by a socially credible robot were more likely to act to mitigate the hazard than users interrupted by a robot lacking social credibility.

Supported by the Assuring Autonomy International Programme and the University of Hertfordshire’s Robot House.

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  1. Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK

    Patrick Holthaus, Catherine Menon & Farshid Amirabdollahian

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Robotics Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

    Emilia Ivanova Barakova

  4. Mechanical & Industrial, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  5. Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Alan R. Wagner

  6. Robotics Lab - Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Álvaro Castro-González

  7. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Holthaus, P., Menon, C., Amirabdollahian, F. (2019). How a Robot’s Social Credibility Affects Safety Performance. In: Salichs, M., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_69

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