The goal of this project was to study the effect of robot gestures on the quality of collaboration between an autonomous robot and a human. We conducted a spoken-language human-robot interaction study with 26 participants which showed that adding robot head turns (to make eye contact with the human) and robot arm gestures (to point toward task-related objects) improved the human's perception of the robot's interaction skills and role as a good collaborator. These results have important implications for the design of human-robot interactions in general.

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Creator

• O'Brien, Kevin James
• Sutherland, Joel David

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050210-145004

Advisor

• Rich, Charles

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-05-02

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright