Towards designing telepresence robot navigation for people with disabilities

作     者：Katherine M.Tsui Eric McCann Amelia McHugh Mikhail Medvedev Holly A.Yanco David Kontak Jill L.Drury 

作者机构：Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts LowellLowellMassachusettsUSA Assistive Technology ServicesCrotched Mountain Rehabilitation CenterGreenfieldNew HampshireUSA Multimedia and Collaboration DepartmentThe MITRE CorporationBedfordMassachusettsUSA 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics》 (智能计算与控制论国际期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第7卷第3期

页      面：307-344页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 081101[工学-控制理论与控制工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 081102[工学-检测技术与自动化装置] 

基　　金：the National Science Foundation(IIS-0905228 IIS-1111125) 

主　　题：Focus groups User studies Computer-mediated communication Design guidelines Human-robot interaction Spatial navigation command 

摘      要：Purpose–The authors believe that people with cognitive and motor impairments may benefit from using of telepresence robots to engage in social *** date,these systems have not been designed for use by people with disabilities as the robot *** paper aims to discuss these ***/methodology/approach–The authors conducted two formative evaluations using a participatory action design ***,the authors conducted a focus group(n¼5)to investigate how members of the target audience would want to direct a telepresence robot in a remote environment using *** authors then conducted a follow-on experiment in which participants(n¼12)used a telepresence robot or directed a human in a scavenger hunt ***–The authors collected a corpus of 312 utterances(first hand as opposed to speculative)relating to spatial ***,the analysis of the corpus supported several speculations put forth during the focus ***,it showed few statistically significant differences between speech used in the human and robot agent conditions;thus,the authors believe that,for the task of directing a telepresence robot’s movements in a remote environment,people will speak to the robot in a manner similar to speaking to another *** implications–Based upon the two formative evaluations,the authors present four guidelines for designing speech-based interfaces for telepresence ***/value–Robot systems designed for general use do not typically consider people with *** work is a first step towards having our target population take the active role of the telepresence robot operator.