Robot autonomy in human-robot interaction

Robots are becoming more and more autonomous with each day. It means that they stop being passive excutors of commands that we issue to them, and become active partners of interaction with us. Therefore, there is a shift from control over robots to interaction with them. While robots that are under our control can be understood as our physical avatars, this interpretation become s more complicated when robots gain some level of outonomy. In this research topic across several studies we addressed the issue of how we percive robots that display different forms of autonomy.

How different forms of robot autonomy influence our sense of control and trust towards the robot

Woźniak, M., De Tommaso, D., Knoblich, G., Wykowska, A. "The influence of robot autonomy on sense of control and trust towards a robot"

How robot autonomy can influence our objective and subjective performance

Woźniak, M., Ari, I., De Tommaso, D., Wykowska, A. "The influence of autonomy of a teleoperated robot on user's objective and subjective performance"