Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX)
Humans and robots will increasingly have to work together in the new industrial context. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the User Experience, Technology Acceptance, and overall wellbeing to achieve a smoother and more satisfying interaction while obtaining the maximum performance possible out...
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| author | Ainhoa Apraiz Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola Ganix Lasa Maitane Mazmela Hien Ngoc Nguyen |
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| description | Humans and robots will increasingly have to work together in the new industrial context. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the User Experience, Technology Acceptance, and overall wellbeing to achieve a smoother and more satisfying interaction while obtaining the maximum performance possible out of it. For this reason, it is essential to analyze these interactions to enhance User Experience. The heuristic evaluation is an easy-to-use, low-cost method that can be applied at different stages of a design process in an iterative manner. Despite these advantages, there is rarely a list of heuristics in the current literature that evaluates Human-Robot interactions both from a User Experience, Technology Acceptance, and Human-Centered approach. Such an approach should integrate key aspects like safety, trust, and perceived safety, ergonomics and workload, inclusivity, and multimodality, as well as robot characteristics and functionalities. Therefore, a new set of heuristics, namely, the HEUROBOX tool, is presented in this work in the form of the HEUROBOX tool to help practitioners and researchers in the assessment of human-robot systems in industrial environments. The HEUROBOX tool clusters design guidelines and methodologies as a logic list of heuristics for human-robot interaction and comprises four categories: Safety, Ergonomics, Functionality, and Interfaces. They include 84 heuristics in the basic evaluation, while the advanced evaluation lists a total of 228 heuristics in order to adapt the tool to the evaluation of different industrial requirements. Finally, the set of new heuristics has been validated by experts using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire and the categories has been prioritized in order of their importance in the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ad795a9f343d4a9fbbb90ed6ca9e05102023-08-31T13:47:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Robotics and AI2296-91442023-08-011010.3389/frobt.2023.12270821227082Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX)Ainhoa Apraiz0Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola1Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola2Ganix Lasa3Maitane Mazmela4Hien Ngoc Nguyen5Design Innovation Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Production, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Arrasate, SpainInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council (CNR), Milan, ItalyMechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Università di Brescia, Brescia, ItalyDesign Innovation Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Production, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Arrasate, SpainDesign Innovation Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Production, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Arrasate, SpainDesign Innovation Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Production, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Arrasate, SpainHumans and robots will increasingly have to work together in the new industrial context. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the User Experience, Technology Acceptance, and overall wellbeing to achieve a smoother and more satisfying interaction while obtaining the maximum performance possible out of it. For this reason, it is essential to analyze these interactions to enhance User Experience. The heuristic evaluation is an easy-to-use, low-cost method that can be applied at different stages of a design process in an iterative manner. Despite these advantages, there is rarely a list of heuristics in the current literature that evaluates Human-Robot interactions both from a User Experience, Technology Acceptance, and Human-Centered approach. Such an approach should integrate key aspects like safety, trust, and perceived safety, ergonomics and workload, inclusivity, and multimodality, as well as robot characteristics and functionalities. Therefore, a new set of heuristics, namely, the HEUROBOX tool, is presented in this work in the form of the HEUROBOX tool to help practitioners and researchers in the assessment of human-robot systems in industrial environments. The HEUROBOX tool clusters design guidelines and methodologies as a logic list of heuristics for human-robot interaction and comprises four categories: Safety, Ergonomics, Functionality, and Interfaces. They include 84 heuristics in the basic evaluation, while the advanced evaluation lists a total of 228 heuristics in order to adapt the tool to the evaluation of different industrial requirements. Finally, the set of new heuristics has been validated by experts using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire and the categories has been prioritized in order of their importance in the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2023.1227082/fullhuman-robot collaboration (HRC)human-robot interaction (HRI)user experience (UX)technology acceptanceheuristic evaluationindustry 5.0 |
| spellingShingle | Ainhoa Apraiz Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola Jose Antonio Mulet Alberola Ganix Lasa Maitane Mazmela Hien Ngoc Nguyen Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) Frontiers in Robotics and AI human-robot collaboration (HRC) human-robot interaction (HRI) user experience (UX) technology acceptance heuristic evaluation industry 5.0 |
| title | Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) |
| title_full | Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) |
| title_fullStr | Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) |
| title_short | Development of a new set of Heuristics for the evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings: Heuristics Robots Experience (HEUROBOX) |
| title_sort | development of a new set of heuristics for the evaluation of human robot interaction in industrial settings heuristics robots experience heurobox |
| topic | human-robot collaboration (HRC) human-robot interaction (HRI) user experience (UX) technology acceptance heuristic evaluation industry 5.0 |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2023.1227082/full |
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