Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services
The use of service robots to assist ageing people in their own homes has the potential to allow people to maintain their independence, increasing their health and quality of life. In many assistive applications, robots perform tasks on people’s behalf that they are unable or unwilling to monitor dir...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
De Gruyter
2015-05-01
|
| Series: | Paladyn |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2015-0007 |
| _version_ | 1797428502663790592 |
|---|---|
| author | Broz Frank Di Nuovo Alessandro Belpaeme Tony Cangelosi Angelo |
| author_facet | Broz Frank Di Nuovo Alessandro Belpaeme Tony Cangelosi Angelo |
| author_sort | Broz Frank |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The use of service robots to assist ageing people
in their own homes has the potential to allow people
to maintain their independence, increasing their health
and quality of life. In many assistive applications, robots
perform tasks on people’s behalf that they are unable or
unwilling to monitor directly. It is important that users
be given useful and appropriate information about task
progress. People being assisted in homes and other realworld
environments are likely be engaged in other activities
while they wait for a service, so information should
also be presented in an appropriate, nonintrusive manner.
This paper presents a human-robot interaction experiment
investigatingwhat type of feedback people prefer in verbal
updates by a service robot about distributed assistive services.
People found feedback about time until task completion
more useful than feedback about events in task
progress or no feedback. We also discuss future research
directions that involve giving non-expert users more input
into the task planning process when delays or failures occur
that necessitate replanning or modifying goals. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-09T08:59:48Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-0bd8fa2891424e55b791184b50ec7e1c |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2081-4836 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-09T08:59:48Z |
| publishDate | 2015-05-01 |
| publisher | De Gruyter |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Paladyn |
| spelling | doaj.art-0bd8fa2891424e55b791184b50ec7e1c2023-12-02T11:51:36ZengDe GruyterPaladyn2081-48362015-05-016110.1515/pjbr-2015-0007pjbr-2015-0007Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic ServicesBroz Frank0Di Nuovo Alessandro1Belpaeme Tony2Cangelosi Angelo3Plymouth University, UKPlymouth University, UKPlymouth University, UKPlymouth University, UKThe use of service robots to assist ageing people in their own homes has the potential to allow people to maintain their independence, increasing their health and quality of life. In many assistive applications, robots perform tasks on people’s behalf that they are unable or unwilling to monitor directly. It is important that users be given useful and appropriate information about task progress. People being assisted in homes and other realworld environments are likely be engaged in other activities while they wait for a service, so information should also be presented in an appropriate, nonintrusive manner. This paper presents a human-robot interaction experiment investigatingwhat type of feedback people prefer in verbal updates by a service robot about distributed assistive services. People found feedback about time until task completion more useful than feedback about events in task progress or no feedback. We also discuss future research directions that involve giving non-expert users more input into the task planning process when delays or failures occur that necessitate replanning or modifying goals.https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2015-0007human-robot interaction social roboticstask planning and executionspeechservice robots |
| spellingShingle | Broz Frank Di Nuovo Alessandro Belpaeme Tony Cangelosi Angelo Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services Paladyn human-robot interaction social robotics task planning and execution speech service robots |
| title | Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services |
| title_full | Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services |
| title_fullStr | Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services |
| title_full_unstemmed | Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services |
| title_short | Talking About Task Progress: Towards Integrating Task Planning and Dialog for Assistive Robotic Services |
| title_sort | talking about task progress towards integrating task planning and dialog for assistive robotic services |
| topic | human-robot interaction social robotics task planning and execution speech service robots |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2015-0007 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT brozfrank talkingabouttaskprogresstowardsintegratingtaskplanninganddialogforassistiveroboticservices AT dinuovoalessandro talkingabouttaskprogresstowardsintegratingtaskplanninganddialogforassistiveroboticservices AT belpaemetony talkingabouttaskprogresstowardsintegratingtaskplanninganddialogforassistiveroboticservices AT cangelosiangelo talkingabouttaskprogresstowardsintegratingtaskplanninganddialogforassistiveroboticservices |