Publications by authors named "Franziska Babel"
Article Synopsis
- The increasing presence of service robots in daily life requires interaction design to cater to novice users, addressing their uncertainties during initial encounters.
- Trust in robots is crucial for ensuring effective cooperation between humans and robotic systems, with user dispositions significantly affecting this trust.
- A laboratory experiment revealed that personality traits, such as the propensity to trust automation and attitudes toward robots, impact anxiety levels and trust, highlighting the importance of individual user characteristics in shaping interactions with robots.
As service robots become increasingly autonomous and follow their own task-related goals, human-robot conflicts seem inevitable, especially in shared spaces. Goal conflicts can arise from simple trajectory planning to complex task prioritization. For successful human-robot goal-conflict resolution, humans and robots need to negotiate their goals and priorities.
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