Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan.
JSPS Research Fellow, 8 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8472, Japan.
Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 27;12(1):10473. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13829-3.
Studies on social robots that can communicate with humans are increasingly important. In particular, semi-aautonomous robots have shown potential for practical applications in which robot autonomy and human teleoperation are jointly used to accomplish difficult tasks. However, it is unknown how the attitude represented in the autonomous behavior of the robots affects teleoperators. Previous studies reported that when humans play a particular role, their attitudes align with that role. The teleoperators of semi-autonomous robots also play the role given to the robots and may assimilate their autonomous expression. We hypothesized that the attitude of teleoperators may align with that of robots through teleoperation. To verify this, we conducted an experiment with conditions under which a participant operated a part of the body of an android robot that autonomously expressed a preferential attitude toward a painting and a condition under which they did not. Experimental results demonstrated that the preferential attitude of participants who teleoperated the android aligned statistically significantly more with that of the robot in comparison to those who did not teleoperate it, thereby supporting our hypothesis. This finding is novel regarding attitude change in teleoperators of semi-autonomous robots and can support the implementation of effective human-robot collaboration systems.
关于能够与人类进行交流的社交机器人的研究正变得越来越重要。特别是，半自主机器人在一些实际应用中具有很大的应用潜力，这些应用中机器人的自主性和人类的远程操作被联合起来以完成困难的任务。然而，目前尚不清楚机器人自主性表现出的态度会如何影响远程操作员。之前的研究报告指出，当人类扮演特定的角色时，他们的态度会与该角色保持一致。半自主机器人的远程操作员也扮演着赋予机器人的角色，并且可能会认同机器人的自主性表现。我们假设，通过远程操作，远程操作员的态度可能会与机器人的态度保持一致。为了验证这一点，我们进行了一项实验，实验条件为参与者远程操作一个能够自主表现出对一幅画的偏好态度的机器人的身体部分，以及他们不进行远程操作的条件。实验结果表明，与没有进行远程操作的参与者相比，进行了远程操作的参与者的偏好态度与机器人的态度在统计学上显著更一致，从而支持了我们的假设。这一发现是关于半自主机器人远程操作员态度变化的新颖观点，并且可以支持有效实施人机协作系统。
