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Lead Me by the Hand: Evaluation of a Direct Physical Interface for Nursing Assistant Robots
Lead Me by the Hand: Evaluation of a Direct Physical Interface for Nursing Assistant Robots
| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Tiffany L. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Kemp, Charles C. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Healthcare Robotics Lab | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-11T15:18:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-11T15:18:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-03 | |
| dc.description | ©2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. | en_US |
| dc.description | Presented at the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2-5 March 2010 , Osaka, Japan. | en_US |
| dc.description | DOI: 10.1109/HRI.2010.5453162 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | When a user is in close proximity to a robot, physical contact becomes a potentially valuable channel for communication. People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person's posture for a task (e.g., a dance instructor working with a dancer). Within this paper, we present an implementation and evaluation of a direct physical interface for a human-scale anthropomorphic robot. We define a direct physical interface (DPI) to be an interface that enables a user to influence a robot's behavior by making contact with its body. Human-human interaction inspired our interface design, which enables a user to lead our robot by the hand and position its arms. We evaluated this interface in the context of assisting nurses with patient lifting, which we expect to be a high-impact application area. Our evaluation consisted of a controlled laboratory experiment with 18 nurses from the Atlanta area of Georgia, USA. We found that our DPI significantly outperformed a comparable wireless gamepad interface in both objective and subjective measures, including number of collisions, time to complete the tasks, workload (Raw Task Load Index), and overall preference. In contrast, we found no significant difference between the two interfaces with respect to the users' perceptions of personal safety. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Chen, T.L.; Kemp, C.C. , "Lead me by the hand: Evaluation of a direct physical interface for nursing assistant robots," 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2010, 367-374. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4244-4892-0 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37358 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.original | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human-robot interaction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Medical robotics | en_US |
| dc.title | Lead Me by the Hand: Evaluation of a Direct Physical Interface for Nursing Assistant Robots | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dc.type.genre | Post-print | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.author | Kemp, Charles C. | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Healthcare Robotics Lab | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) | |
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