With a little help of humans. an exploratory study of delivery robots stuck in snow

A Dobrosovestnova, I Schwaninger… - 2022 31st IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
People's willingness to help robots has been explored in the lab and in the wild in various
settings. While previous studies relied on robotic prototypes, service robots are now already …

" Would You Please Buy Me a Coffee?" How MicroculturesImpact People's Helpful Actions Toward Robots

A Fallatah, B Chun, S Balali, H Knight - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Robots sometimes face hardware and algorithmic challenges that exceed their capabilities,
eg, an armless robot pressing an elevator button. Previous work suggests that rather than …

How service robots can improve workplace experience: Camaraderie, customization, and humans-in-the-loop

YL Tsai, C Wadgaonkar, B Chun, H Knight - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents the results of a three-week in-the-wild deployment of a wizarded service
robot in a shared campus workplace. The study introduces robot-centric ethnography, a …

Not all who wander are lost: A localization-free system for in-the-wild mobile robot deployments

A Nanavati, N Walker, L Taber… - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is difficult to run long-term in-the-wild studies with mobile robots. This is partly because the
robots we, as human-robot interaction (HRI) researchers, are interested in deploying …

Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

A Fallatah - 2023 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address
exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a …