What Untrained People Do When Asked "Make The Robot Come To You"

Abstract

We report the actions of untrained users when instructed to “ make the robot come to you”. The robot is a generic wheeled mobile robot located 8m away and is driven by the experimenter without the knowledge of the participant. The results show a variety of calls and gestures made to the robot, that changed over time. We observed two distinct behaviour phases: (i) getting the robot's attention; (ii) maintaining the robot's behaviour as it approaches. This data could aid the design of future mobile-robot HRI.