TABLE SETTING

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Older adults' interaction with robots requires effective feedback to keep them aware of the state of the interaction for optimum interaction quality. This study examines the effect of different feedback modalities in a table setting robot assistant for elder care. Two different feedback modalities (visual and au-ditory) and their combination were evaluated for three complexity levels. The visual feedback included the use of LEDs and a GUI screen. The auditory feed-back included alerts (beeps) and verbal commands. The results revealed that the quality of interaction was influenced mainly by the feedback modality, and com-plexity had less influence. The verbal feedback was significantly preferable and increased the participants’ involvement during the experiment. The combination of LED lights and verbal commands increased participants' understanding con-tributing to the quality of interaction.

PUBLICATIONS

Markfeld, N., Olatunji, S., & Edan, Y. (2021). Evaluating Feedback Modalities in a Mobile Robot for Telecare. In Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp. 136-146). Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_14

Gutman, D., Olatunji, S., Markfeld, N., Givati, S., Sarne-Fleischmann, V., Oron-Gilad, T., & Edan, Y. Evaluating levels of automation and feedback in an assistive robotic table clearing task for eldercare. Submitted to Applied Ergonomics, Dec. 2021.

Olatunji, S.A., Oron-Gilad, T., Markfeld, N., Gutman, D., Sarne-Fleischmann, V. & Edan, Y. (2021). Levels of automation and transparency: interaction design considerations in socially assistive robots for older adults. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 51(6), 673-683. DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2021.3107516

Olatunji S., Markfeld N., Gutman D., Givati S., Oron-Gilad T., Edan Y. (2019). Improving the Interaction of Older Adults with a Socially Assistive Table Setting Robot. International conference on Social Robotics (pp 568-577) In: Salichs M. et al. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11876. Springer, Cham.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_53

THESIS

Noa Markfeld, M.Sc., Feedback for human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. PDF, PPT
Dana Gutman, M.Sc., LOA in human-robot collaboration. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. January 2021. PDF, PPT
Eliran Itzhak, M.Sc., Development of polite robots and evaluation in real world scenarios. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. March 2022. PDF