TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis and semantic modeling of modality preferences in industrial human-robot interaction
AU - Profanter, Stefan
AU - Perzylo, Alexander
AU - Somani, Nikhil
AU - Rickert, Markus
AU - Knoll, Alois
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/11
Y1 - 2015/12/11
N2 - Intuitive programming of industrial robots is especially important for small and medium-sized enterprises. We evaluated four different input modalities (touch, gesture, speech, 3D tracking device) regarding their preference, usability, and intuitiveness for robot programming. A Wizard-of-Oz experiment was conducted with 30 participants and its results show that most users prefer touch and gesture input over 3D tracking device input, whereas speech input was the least preferred input modality. The results also indicate that there are gender specific differences for preferred input modalities. We show how the results of the user study can be formalized in a semantic description language in such a way that a cognitive robotic workcell can benefit from the additional knowledge of input and output modalities, task parameter types, and preferred combinations of the two.
AB - Intuitive programming of industrial robots is especially important for small and medium-sized enterprises. We evaluated four different input modalities (touch, gesture, speech, 3D tracking device) regarding their preference, usability, and intuitiveness for robot programming. A Wizard-of-Oz experiment was conducted with 30 participants and its results show that most users prefer touch and gesture input over 3D tracking device input, whereas speech input was the least preferred input modality. The results also indicate that there are gender specific differences for preferred input modalities. We show how the results of the user study can be formalized in a semantic description language in such a way that a cognitive robotic workcell can benefit from the additional knowledge of input and output modalities, task parameter types, and preferred combinations of the two.
KW - Programming
KW - Service robots
KW - Speech
KW - Speech recognition
KW - Three-dimensional displays
KW - Welding
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84958184734
U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353613
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353613
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958184734
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 1812
EP - 1818
BT - IROS Hamburg 2015 - Conference Digest
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2015
Y2 - 28 September 2015 through 2 October 2015
ER -