Assessment of Robot Guidance Modalities Conveying Instructions to Humans in Emergency Situations

Robinette, Paul; Wagner, Alan R.; Howard, Ayanna M.

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Assessment of Robot Guidance Modalities Conveying Instructions to Humans in Emergency Situations

dc.contributor.author	Robinette, Paul
dc.contributor.author	Wagner, Alan R.
dc.contributor.author	Howard, Ayanna M.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Human-Automation Systems Lab	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Tech Research Institute	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-04T13:43:48Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-04T13:43:48Z
dc.date.issued	2014-08
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dc.description	23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN 2014), 25-29 August 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland.
dc.description	DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926390
dc.description.abstract	Motivated by the desire to mitigate human casualties in emergency situations, this paper explores various guidance modalities provided by a robotic platform for instructing humans to safely evacuate during an emergency. We focus on physical modifications of the robot, which enables visual guidance instructions, since auditory guidance instructions pose potential problems in a noisy emergency environment. Robotic platforms can convey visual guidance instructions through motion, static signs, dynamic signs, and gestures using single or multiple arms. In this paper, we discuss the different guidance modalities instantiated by different physical platform constructs and assess the abilities of the platforms to convey information related to evacuation. Human-robot interaction studies with 192 participants show that participants were able to understand the information conveyed by the various robotic constructs in 75.8% of cases when using dynamic signs with multi-arm gestures, as opposed to 18.0% when using static signs for visual guidance. Of interest to note is that dynamic signs had equivalent performance to single-arm gestures overall but drastically different performances at the two distance levels tested. Based on these studies, we conclude that dynamic signs are important for information conveyance when the robot is in close proximity to the human but multi-arm gestures are necessary when information must be conveyed across a greater distance.	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Robinette, P.; Wagner, A. R.; & Howard, A. M. (2014). Assessment of robot guidance modalities conveying instructions to humans in emergency situations". 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN 2014), 25-29 August 2014, pp. 1043-1049.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926390
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53805
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.publisher.original	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
dc.subject	Emergency evacuation	en_US
dc.subject	Emergency situations	en_US
dc.subject	Guide robots	en_US
dc.subject	Human-robot interaction	en_US
dc.title	Assessment of Robot Guidance Modalities Conveying Instructions to Humans in Emergency Situations	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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local.contributor.author	Howard, Ayanna M.
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
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