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We are interested in enhancing the efficiency of human–robot collaborations, especially in “supervisor-worker” settings where autonomous robots work under the supervision of a human operator. We believe that trust serves a critical role in modeling the interactions within these teams, and also in streamlining their efficiency. We propose an operational formulation of human–robot trust on a short interaction time scale, which is tailored to a practical tele-robotics setting. We also report on a controlled user study that collected interaction data from participants collaborating with an autonomous robot to perform visual navigation tasks. Our analyses quantify key correlations between real-time human–robot trust assessments and diverse factors, including properties of failure events reflecting causal trust attribution, as well as strong influences from each user’s personality. We further construct and optimize a predictive model of users’ trust responses to discrete events, which provides both insights on this fundamental aspect of real-time human–machine interaction, and also has pragmatic significance for designing trust-aware robot agents.
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We would like to acknowledge the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) for its funding support. We would also like to thank all of the participants who contributed to our user study.
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Xu, A., Dudek, G. (2016). Towards Modeling Real-Time Trust in Asymmetric Human–Robot Collaborations. In: Inaba, M., Corke, P. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28872-7_7
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