Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Strawderman, Lesley.
Committee Member
Carruth, Daniel W.
Committee Member
Smith, Brian
Date of Degree
8-10-2018
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Industrial Engineering
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
James Worth Bagley College of Engineering
Department
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Abstract
It is increasingly common for people to work alongside robots in a variety of situations. When a robot is completing a task, the handler of the robot may be present. It is important to know how people interact with the robot when the handler is next to the robot. Our study focuses on whether handler’s presence can affect human’s behavior toward the robot. Our experiment targets two different scenarios (handler present and handler absent) in order to find out human’s behavior change toward the robot. Results show that in the handler present scenario, people are less willing to interact with the robot. However, when people do interact with the robot, they tend to interact with both the handler and the robot. This suggests that researchers should consider the presence of a handler when designing for human-robot interactions.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/16568
Recommended Citation
Sun, Yu-Wei, "Do People Change their Behavior when the Handler is next to the Robot?" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 1553.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/1553