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How to Walk a Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface

James Everett Young, Youichi Kamiyama, Juliane Reichenbach, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin

Dog Leash

Abstract

Human-robot interaction (HRI) tasks in everyday environments will require people to direct or lead a robot as they walk in close proximity to it. Tasks that exemplify this interaction include a robotic porter, carrying heavy suitcases, or a robot carrying groceries. As many users may not be robotics experts, we argue that such interaction schemes must be accessible, easy to use and understand. In this paper, we present a dog-leash interface that enables a person to lead a robot simply by holding the leash, following a dog-leash interaction metaphor. We introduce variants on dog-leash robotic interaction, present our original interface implementation, and detail our formal qualitative evaluation, exploring how users perceive and accept the dog leash robotic interaction.

Publication

James Everett Young, Youichi Kamiyama, Juliane Reichenbach, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin.
How to Walk a Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface.
20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2011), pp.376-382, August, Atlanta. PDF Video: YouTube(1:43)

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Dog Leash

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