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Steijn, W.M.P. (author), van Gulijk, C. (author), van der Beek, D. (author), Sluijs, T. (author)Cooperative robots in the workspace have an effect on safety that is not yet fully understood. This work collates pre-existing knowledge on human, technological and organizational factors for human-robot interaction and develops a system dynamics model that captures the complex interactions. Expert consultation in the form of a Delphi study is...article 2023
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Ligthart, M.E.U. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)In this article we discuss two studies of children getting acquainted with an autonomous socially assistive robot. The success of the first encounter is key for a sustainable long-term supportive relationship. We provide four validated behavior design elements that enable the robot to robustly get acquainted with the child. The first are five...article 2022
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Verhagen, R.S. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Tielman, M.L. (author)Humans and robots are increasingly working together in human-robot teams. Teamwork requires communication, especially when interdependence between team members is high. In previous work, we identified a conceptual difference between sharing what you are doing (i.e., being transparent) and why you are doing it (i.e., being explainable). Although...article 2022
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de Graaf, M.M.A. (author), Perugia, G. (author), Fosch-Villaronga, E. (author), Schaertl Short, E. (author), Lim, A. (author), Broz, F. (author), Neerincx, M. (author)Discrimination and bias are pressing issues of many AI and robotics applications. These outcomes may derive from limited datasets that do not fully represent society as a whole or from the AI scientific community’s western-male configuration bias. Although being a pressing issue, understanding how robotic systems can replicate and amplify...conference paper 2022
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Pupa, A. (author), van Dijk, W. (author), Brekelmans, C. (author), Secchis, C. (author)Effective task scheduling in human-robot collaboration (HRC) scenarios is one of the great challenges of collaborative robotics. The shared workspace inside an industrial setting brings a lot of uncertainties that cannot be foreseen. A prior offline task scheduling strategy is ineffective in dealing with these uncertainties. In this paper, a...article 2022
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van Zoelen, E.M. (author), van den Bosch, K. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)A team develops competency by progressive mutual adaptation and learning, a process we call co-learning. In human teams, partners naturally adapt to each other and learn while collaborating. This is not self-evident in human-robot teams. There is a need for methods and models for describing and enabling co-learning in human-robot partnerships....conference paper 2021
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Pupa, A. (author), van Dijk, W. (author), Secchi, C. (author)In collaborative robotic applications, human and robot have to work together during a whole shift for executing a sequence of jobs. The performance of the human robot team can be enhanced by scheduling the right tasks to the human and the robot. The scheduling should consider the task execution constraints, the variability in the task execution...article 2021
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van Zoelen, E.M. (author), van den Bosch, K. (author), Neerincx, M. (author)Becoming a well-functioning team requires continuous collaborative learning by all team members. This is called co-learning, conceptualized in this paper as comprising two alternating iterative stages: partners adapting their behavior to the task and to each other (co-adaptation), and partners sustaining successful behavior through communication...article 2021
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van Zoelen, E.M. (author), van den Bosch, K. (author), Rauterberg, M. (author), Barakova, E. (author), Neerincx, M. (author)As robots become more ubiquitous, they will increasingly need to behave as our team partners and smoothly adapt to the (adaptive) human team behaviors to establish successful patterns of collaboration over time. A substantial amount of adaptations present themselves through subtle and unconscious interactions, which are difficult to observe. Our...article 2021
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de Visser, E.J. (author), Peeters, M.M.M. (author), Jung, M.F. (author), Kohn, S. (author), Shaw, T.H. (author), Pak, R. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)The introduction of artificial teammates in the form of autonomous social robots, with fewer social abilities compared to humans, presents new challenges for human–robot team dynamics. A key characteristic of high performing human-only teams is their ability to establish, develop, and calibrate trust over long periods of time, making the...article 2020
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Steijn, W.M.P (author), van Oosterhout, J. (author), Willemsen, J. (author), Jansen, A. (author)Recent developments have introduced so-called cobots or cooperative robots, which place the machines on the work floor next to employees. A new challenge arises to keep these human robot interactions, safe and healthy, while also maintaining the sustainability and efficiency of the interaction. Here, we present a model, which can be a valuable...conference paper 2020
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de Visser, E.J. (author), Peeters, M.M.H. (author), Jung, M.F. (author), Kohn, S. (author), Shaw, T.H. (author), Pak, R. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)The introduction of artificial teammates in the form of autonomous social robots, with fewer social abilities compared to humans, presents new challenges for human–robot team dynamics. A key characteristic of high performing human-only teams is their ability to establish, develop, and calibrate trust over long periods of time, making the...article 2019
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van de Merwe, D.B. (author), van Maanen, L. (author), ter Haar, F.B. (author), van Dijk, R.J.E. (author), Hoeba, N. (author), van der Stap, N. (author)Virtual Reality (VR) mediated teleoperation is a relatively new field in robotics which means little is known about the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of environmental information presentation on Human-Robot Team (HRT) task performance and operator Situation Awareness (oSA). Method. The...conference paper 2019
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Willemse, C.J.A.M. (author), van Erp, J.B.F. (author)Social touch interactions can, depending on the type and strength of the dyadic social relationship, elicit a plethora of physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses; both beneficial and disadvantageous. With the intention to expand the communicative capabilities of humanoid social robots, we investigated whether robot-initiated touches...article 2019
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Neerincx, M.A. (author), Vught, W. (author), Blanson Henkemans, O. (author), Oleari, E. (author), Broekens, J. (author), Peters, R. (author), Kaptein, F. (author), Demiris, Y. (author), Kiefer, B. (author), Fumagalli, D. (author), Bierman, B. (author)Social or humanoid robots do hardly show up in "the wild", aiming at pervasive human benefits such as child health. This paper presents the socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) methodology for the required field research \& development of robots, focusing on the incremental development of a social robot and child-robot activities that support the...article 2019
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Saad, E. (author), Broekens, D.J. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author)This paper presents the design and evaluation of human-like welcoming behaviors for a humanoid robot to draw the attention of passersby by following a three-step model: (1) selecting a target (person) to engage, (2) executing behaviors to draw the target's attention, and (3) monitoring the attentive response. A computer vision algorithm was...conference paper 2019
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Reducing stress by bonding with a social robot: Towards autonomous long-term child-robot interactionLigthart, M. (author), Hindriks, K. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Pediatric oncology patients could benefit from bonding with a social robot and talking about their day in the hospital. With our research we aim to contribute to the development of a robot that is able to facilitate a child-robot bond autonomously and long-term. We propose to use robot-disclosure and a shared interaction history to create a...conference paper 2018
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van Diggelen, J. (author), Looije, R. (author), van der Waa, J.S. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Turning a robot into an effective team-player requires continuous adaptation during its lifecycle to human team-members, tasks, and the technological environment. This paper proposes a concept for human-robot team development over longer periods of time and discusses technological and operational implications. From an operational perspective, we...conference paper 2018
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Saad, E. (author), Hindriks, K.V. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Task allocation and management is crucial for human-robot collaboration in Urban Search And Rescue response efforts. The job of a mission team leader in managing tasks becomes complicated when adding multiple and different types of robots to the team. Therefore, to effectively accomplish mission objectives, shared situation awareness and task...conference paper 2018
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de Greeff, J. (author), Mioch, T. (author), van Vught, W. (author), Hindriks, K. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Kruijff-Korbayová, I. (author)We report on a field exercise in which a team of human fire-fighters used robots to enact a realistic disaster response mission in an industrial environment. In this exercise we evaluated the technical working of an integrated robotic system and gained insights concerning the manner in which robots and information streams can be utilized...conference paper 2018