Final Report for the DARPA/NSF Interdisciplinary Study on HumanRobot Interaction Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • As part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/National Science Foundation study on human-robot interaction (HRI), over sixty representatives from academia, government, and industry participated in an interdisciplinary workshop, which allowed roboticists to interact with psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, communication experts and human-computer interaction specialists to discuss common interests in the field of HRI, and to establish a dialogue across the disciplines for future collaborations. We include initial work that was done in preparation for the workshop, links to keynote and other presentations, and a summary of the findings, outcomes, and recommendations that were generated by the participants. Findings of the study include - the need for more extensive interdisciplinary interaction, identification of basic taxonomies and research issues, social informatics, establishment of a small number of common application domains, and field experience for members of the HRI community. An overall conclusion of the workshop was expressed as the following - HRI is a cross-disciplinary area, which poses barriers to meaningful research, synthesis, and technology transfer. The vocabularies, experiences, methodologies, and metrics of the communities are sufficiently different that cross-disciplinary research is unlikely to happen without sustained funding and an infrastructure to establish a new HRI community.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Burke, J. L., Murphy, R. R., Rogers, E., Lumelsky, V. J., & Scholtz, J.

complete list of authors

  • Burke, Jennifer L||Murphy, Robin Roberson||Rogers, Erika||Lumelsky, Vladimir J||Scholtz, Jean