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Closing the Loop in Minimally Supervised Human-Robot Interaction: Formative and Summative Feedback

2024

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Human instructors fluidly communicate with hand gestures, head and body movements, and facial expressions, but robots rarely leverage these complementary cues. A minimally supervised social robot with such skills could help people exercise and learn new activities. Thus, we investigated how nonverbal feedback from a humanoid robot affects human behavior. Inspired by the education literature, we evaluated formative feedback (real-time corrections) and summative feedback (post-task scores) for three distinct tasks: positioning in the room, mimicking the robot's arm pose, and contacting the robot's hands. Twenty-eight adults completed seventy-five 30-second-long trials with no explicit instructions or experimenter help. Motion-capture data analysis shows that both formative and summative feedback from the robot significantly aided user performance. Additionally, formative feedback improved task understanding. These results show the power of nonverbal cues based on human movement and the utility of viewing feedback through formative and summative lenses.

Author(s): Mayumi Mohan and Cara M. Nunez and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Journal: Scientific Reports
Volume: 14
Number (issue): 10564
Pages: 1--18
Year: 2024
Month: May

Department(s): Haptische Intelligenz
Research Project(s): Teleoperating Max's Head and Arms
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60905-x
State: Published

BibTex

@article{Mohan24-SR-Closing,
  title = {Closing the Loop in Minimally Supervised Human-Robot Interaction: Formative and Summative Feedback},
  author = {Mohan, Mayumi and Nunez, Cara M. and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  volume = {14},
  number = {10564},
  pages = {1--18},
  month = may,
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1038/s41598-024-60905-x},
  month_numeric = {5}
}