| Dimension | Characteristics |
|---|---|
| Trust Type | Competency-based |
| Interaction | Collaboration |
| Stage | Instantaneous |
| Risk | Task Failure |
| System | Robotic-Non-AV |
| Test Environment | In-the-wild |
| Measurement | Behavioural; Self-Reported |
| Application Domain | UC needs special equipment |
| Pattern | Suck-it-and-see |
Ad hoc mobile human-robot teams for inspection
Contributed by:
edmund
Description
Users unfamiliar with a rover robot had to work alongside 2 of them in searching an area by scanning QR codes, representing inspecting a dangerous environment (post-fire). The team was 'ad hoc' in that the user had not used the robot before and would not use it again in a follow-up study. The trust was disrupted by experimenters by interrupting communications to see how trust might be damaged and possibly recover once communications were restored.
Commentary
Many HRI trust models and experiments consider long-term repeat intereactions with robots, whereas this scenario/study is more focused on short-term ad hoc interactions and the nature of 'swift trust' in robots. There is more work to be done in understanding trust repair in such scenarios, after trust is broken/damaged for whatever reason: what trust repair strategies might be most effective for short-term recovery?
Source
Milivojevic, S. et al. (2024). Swift Trust in Mobile Ad Hoc Human-Robot Teams. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems .