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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Talk:
4:00 p.m., Avery 115
Reception:
3:30 p.m., Avery 348
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Brittany Duncan
Ph.D. Candidate, Texas A&M UniversityAbstract
This talk will discuss the role of human-robot interaction for small and personal unmanned aerial vehicles in public spaces. Prior personal space studies involving humans and robots have found social similarities to the ways in which humans interact with one another, but these findings have been limited to ground-based vehicles. In this presentation, it will be argued that those results may not generalize to aerial vehicles, and that human-robot interactions for small flying robots could be quite different. This has significant implications as the personal-drone movement has resulted in an accelerated diffusion of flying robots into human-centric domains such as emergency response, manufacturing and delivery, and health and fitness. Specific research questions that will be addressed include: 1) What are the appropriate parameters for three-dimensional interaction models for co-located humans and robots? 2) What operational factors are important to consider and report when conducting field-based robotics experiments to better inform future human-robot interaction? 3) What role does improved human-robot interaction play in aiding individual and team decision-making among humans? This discussion will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the robotics community, as well as those in the fields of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the social sciences.
Speaker Bio
Brittany Duncan received a B.S. in Computer Science in 2009 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate and NSF Graduate Fellow in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University. During her studies she has been a graduate student member of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, and in 2011 she worked at the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California. In 2014, she was elected as General Chair of the Pioneers Workshop at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Her research is at the nexus of behavior-based robotics, human-robot interaction, and unmanned vehicles; specifically she is focused on how humans can more naturally interact with robots, individually or as part of ad hoc teams, in field-based domains such as disaster response and engineering applications.