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Using competitions to study human-robot interaction in urban search and rescue

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Giuseppina Carla Gini

This short paper proposes using data collected from a set of well-defined experiments in human-robot interaction to individuate better interfaces and strategies of cooperation. The experiments take place in the arena of the urban search and rescue (USAR) robot competitions. The goal of the competitions is to search for victims in a damaged urban area, with three levels of difficulty. The authors have been collecting data since 2000, the year of the second competition. They take movies from a fixed camera, and also from cameras able to automatically track the robots. From a manual analysis of the tapes, they have characterized the user approaches and the operator's use of the interface, and extracted the situation awareness of the operators. The target of the research is to extract useful measures of human-robot cooperation through the interface without asking anything more of the operator, and without any interruptions during the contest. The main contribution of the paper is its description of this unusual arena to check user interfaces. It would also be useful to compare results obtained from external observers and from direct actors, if available. I suspect that most of the problems encountered in the arena, and many of the errors, are due to a lack of appropriate sensorial feedback to the user, more than to generic limitations of the interfaces; I hope to see more data to support or reject this opinion. Online Computing Reviews Service

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cover image Interactions
Interactions  Volume 12, Issue 2
Robots!
March + April 2005
99 pages
ISSN:1072-5520
EISSN:1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/1052438
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Published: 01 March 2005
Published in INTERACTIONS Volume 12, Issue 2

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