Publication

Participatory design for explainable robots

Conference Article

Conference

Workshop on Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Workshop-HRI)

Edition

2024

Doc link

https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/research/projects/trail/publications/pdfs/2024-03-gebelli-hri24.pdf

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Abstract

Currently, many works focus on algorithms that generate explanations, and evaluate the impact on user trust and understanding over robots afterwards. We suggest a user-centric approach for explainability from the very beginning. Concretely, we propose a participatory design methodology with three main steps: (1) to find together with users what makes an application usable, (2) to co-design the interface to make sure it is intuitive and understandable, and only then (3) to redefine and develop the robot’s functionality and autonomous behaviours. We perform the proposed framework’s first steps together with different stakeholders in a geriatric unit at an intermediate care centre.

Categories

service robots.

Author keywords

Robotics, Human-centered computing, Participatory design.

Scientific reference

F. Gebelli, R. Ros and A. Garrell Zulueta. Participatory design for explainable robots, 2024 Workshop on Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024, USA.