The oz of wizard: simulating the human for interaction research

  • Authors:
  • Aaron Steinfeld;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Brian Scassellati

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Wizard of Oz experiment method has a long tradition of acceptance and use within the field of human-robot interaction. The community has traditionally downplayed the importance of interaction evaluations run with the inverse model: the human simulated to evaluate robot behavior, or Oz of Wizard. We argue that such studies play an important role in the field of human-robot interaction. We differentiate between methodologically rigorous human modeling and placeholder simulations using simplified human models. Guidelines are proposed for when Oz of Wizard results should be considered acceptable. This paper also describes a framework for describing the various permutations of Wizard and Oz states.