Human Decisions for Robot Integration

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental design to explore how inexperienced persons adapt their usage of a robot in a construction task after their first experience with a cooperative robot. In the experiment, 12 participants had to decide which task of the building plan should be carried out by the robot and which task they carry out by themselves. Although they did not use a coherent strategy, the participants were able to adapt their decision to the robot. As a result, they have significantly reduced the total time of completion within four repetitions.