It’s a Match

Task Assignment in Human–Robot Collaboration Depends on Mind Perception

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8075809
AutoresEva Wiese (0000-0002-0322-1250, autor de correspondencia), Patrick P Weis (0000-0003-4586-1464, Technische Hochschule Ulm), Yochanan Bigman (0000-0002-0978-322X), Kyra Kapsaskis (0000-0003-2063-6156), Kurt Gray (0000-0001-5816-2676)
Año2021
Volumen14
Número1
Páginas141-148
Fecha de publicación2021-03-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Social Robotics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1875-4791 • E-ISSN: 1875-4805
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s12369-021-00771-z
OpenAlexW3151959626
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas19

Robots are becoming more available for workplace collaboration, but many questions remain. Are people actually willing to assign collaborative tasks to robots? And if so, exactly which tasks will they assign to what kinds of robots? Here we leverage psychological theories on person-job fit and mind perception to investigate task assignment in human–robot collaborative work. We propose that people will assign robots to jobs based on their “perceived mind,” and also that people will show predictable social biases in their collaboration decisions. In this study, participants performed an arithmetic (i.e., calculating differences) and a social (i.e., judging emotional states) task, either alone or by collaborating with one of two robots: an emotionally capable robot or an emotionally incapable robot. Decisions to collaborate (i.e., to assign the robots to generate the answer) rates were high across all trials, especially for tasks that participants found challenging (i.e., the arithmetic task). Collaboration was predicted by perceived robot-task fit, such that the emotional robot was assigned the social task. Interestingly, the arithmetic task was assigned more to the emotionally incapable robot, despite the emotionally capable robot being equally capable of computation. This is consistent with social biases (e.g., gender bias) in mind perception and person-job fit. The theoretical and practical implications of this work for HRI are being discussed.

Cognitive psychology · Human–computer interaction · Human–robot interaction · Leverage (statistics · Mobile robot · Perception · Robot · Robot control · Robotics · Social robot · Task (project management · Task Analysis · AI in Service Interactions · Computer Science · Engineering · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Artificial Intelligence · Social Psychology