January 20, 2023
The article Understanding Partners’ behavior for Transparent Collaboration, by Institute Researchers Dr Vangelis Karkaletsis and Dr Maria Dagioglou was published in the ERCIM news, the magazine of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).
What is discussed in this article is the human-robot collaboration (HRC) towards mutual goals demanding interdependent tasks and the crucial issue in HRC related to the delivery of ethical and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). Towards this issue, the researchers of the Roboskel, the robotics of the SKEL The AI Lab, integrated an HRC testbed and initiated a line of studies aiming to explore team performance, using objective measures as well as subjective human partners collaboration.
The studies showed that HRC triggers different behaviors and demonstrated the need for a better understanding of how people perceive and experience collaboration with AI (embodied) agents. Thus, real-world research on human behavior during HRC is needed for the alignment of various ethical dimensions and for adequately advancing state-of-the-art AI methods.