通过虚拟厨房实验，研究机器人外形如何影响人类协作意愿与分工决策。
Bot Appétit! Exploring how Robot Morphology Shapes Perceived Affordances via a Mise en Place Scenario in a VR Kitchen
- 在虚拟现实厨房中测试不同机器人形态对人类协作行为的影响。
- 人类更倾向与类生物形态机器人合作，且对其动作能力判断受外形影响更大。
- 细长型机器人能减少人类的避让行为，适合共用空间协作。
本研究探究机器人视觉设计因素如何影响人类在协作烹饪场景中对其的放置方式及任务分配。参与者置身于虚拟现实（VR）环境，需为机器人伙伴布置厨房，同时考虑其形态特征。研究收集了参与者创建的空间布局、任务过程中的思考自述录音以及结构化问卷回答。分析结果提出三个假设：人类更倾向于与类生物形态机器人合作；对机器人感官能力的信念受其形态影响较小，而对动作能力的判断则受显著影响；与纤细型机器人共处时，人类会采用更少的避让策略。后续研究将验证这些假设。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This study explores which factors of the visual design of a robot may influence how humans would place it in a collaborative cooking scenario and how these features may influence task delegation. Human participants were placed in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment and asked to set up a kitchen for cooking alongside a robot companion while considering the robot's morphology. We collected multimodal data for the arrangements created by the participants, transcripts of their think-aloud as they were performing the task, and transcripts of their answers to structured post-task questionnaires. Based on analyzing this data, we formulate several hypotheses: humans prefer to collaborate with biomorphic robots; human beliefs about the sensory capabilities of robots are less influenced by the morphology of the robot than beliefs about action capabilities; and humans will implement fewer avoidance strategies when sharing space with gracile robots. We intend to verify these hypotheses in follow-up studies.
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