[Back]


Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

S. Zafari, I. Schwaninger, M. Hirschmanner, C. Schmidbauer, A. Weiss, S. Koeszegi:
""You Are Doing so Great!" - The Effect of a Robotīs Interaction Style on Self-Efficacy in HRI";
Talk: 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, New Delhi, India; 2019-10-14 - 2019-10-18; in: "Proceeding of Robot and Human Communication", IEEE, (2019), 7 pages.



English abstract:
People form mental models about robots' behavior and intention as they interact with them. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of different interaction styles on self-efficacy in human-robot interaction (HRI), people's perception of the robot, and task engagement. We conducted a user study in which a social robot assists people verbally while building a house of cards. Data from our experimental study revealed that people engaged longer in the task while interacting with a robot that provides person related feedback than with a robot that gives no person or task related feedback. Moreover, people interacting with a robot with a person-oriented interaction style reported a higher self-efficacy in HRI, perceived higher agreeableness of the robot and found the interaction less frustrating, as compared to a robot with a task-oriented interaction style. This suggests that a robot's interaction style can be considered as a key factor for increasing people's perceived self-efficacy in HRI, which is essential for establishing trust and enabling Human-robot collaboration.

Keywords:
human-robot interaction, human-robot collaboration, interaction style, self-efficacy

Created from the Publication Database of the Vienna University of Technology.