Xuezhi Niu

"What do I do now?": Spontaneous Human Responses to Robot Effectiveness and Efficiency Malfunctions in Collaborative Robotics

Robot malfunctions are unavoidable in human–robot collaboration and oftentimes detrimental. Yet humans are rarely instructed on how to respond in such moments, leaving ample room for spontaneity and unpredictability. We studied 65 participants working alongside a collaborative robot under both normal operation and del…