Support for workspace awareness in educational groupware
CSCL '95 The first international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
Building a Multimodal Human-Robot Interface
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Map Usage in Virtual Environments: Orientation Issues
VR '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality
Collaborative control: a robot-centric model for vehicle teleoperation
Collaborative control: a robot-centric model for vehicle teleoperation
Have robots, need interaction with humans!
interactions - Robots!
Robotic products to assist the aging population
interactions - Robots!
Adapting GOMS to model human-robot interaction
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Beyond usability evaluation: analysis of human-robot interaction at a major robotics competition
Human-Computer Interaction
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It is virtually envisioned that in the near future home-service robots will be assisting people in their daily lives. While a wide spectrum of utility of home-service robots has been proposed, i.e., cleaning, surveillance or go-and-fetch jobs, usability studies of the home-service robots have been less undertaken. This paper explores the usability issues, in particular, a map-based user interface for instructing home-service robots in the home environment. It focused on how the different map representation of the co-located environment would affect task performance of locating the home-service robots. The effectiveness of the map-based human-robot interface was thus analysed according to the dimensionality of the map, the location information of the elements in the co-located workspace. The experimental results showed that task performance was varied by the different map representation, providing a better understanding of what characteristics of the map representation were able to effectively support the human operator in instructing the home-service robots in the home environment.