Understanding Interaction and Perception in Collaborative Work via Cobots
Collaborative robots—cobots—present conceptually novel challenges to those of industrial robots in that they are imagined as situated amidst individuals and social groups as opposed to operating within ‘separated’ environments. Collaboration is often formulated in terms of improving dyadic human-cobot interaction. But a much broader issue is the way cobots are embedded into social circumstances, interacting with and around multiple people or groups. This project investigates cobots as mediators by setting up a series of scenarios in which physically distributed groups engage in collaborative tasks where cobots provide support in mediating between them.
Project team: Stuart Reeves, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Sarah Martindale, Dominic Price, Marise Galvez Trigo, Pepita Barnard, Shazmin Majid
Partners; Unilever, BlueSkeye AI
Introduction blog, mid blog, extension blog, update blog
University of Nottingham Press Release: New Study finds invisible ‘human work’ allows robots to deliver
Best Paper ACM/IEEE International Conference in Human-Robot Interaction: Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets
Resolving Conflicts During Human-Robot C0-Manipulation, HRI ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. March 2023, Pages 243–25
Start date: 1st April 2021 – 31 March 2022, extended to run until 30 September 2022
This project sits within Horizon’s Agile programme
Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of
Nottingham Innovation Park, Triumph Road, Nottingham,
NG7 2TU
horizon@nottingham.ac.uk
