@inproceedings{dbb51837b914476fb30d41f0be1a0c09,
title = "Perceived Autonomy of Robots: Effects of appearance and context",
abstract = "Due to advances in technology, the world around us contains an increasingnumber of robots, virtual agents, and other intelligent systems. These systems allhave a certain degree of autonomy. For the people who interact with an intelligentsystem it is important to obtain a good understanding of its degree of autonomy:what tasks can the system perform autonomously and to what extent? In this paperwe therefore present a study on how a system{\textquoteright}s characteristics affect people{\textquoteright}s perceptionof its autonomy. This was investigated by asking fire-fighters to rate theautonomy of a number of search and rescue robots in different shapes and situations.In this paper, we identify the following seven aspects of perceived autonomy: timeinterval of interaction, obedience, informativeness, task complexity, task implication,physical appearance, and physical distance to human operator. The study showed thatincreased disobedience, task complexity and physical distance of a robot can increaseperceived autonomy.",
keywords = "Autonomy, Robots, Intelligent agents, Intelligent systems, Robot design, User expectations, Human-robot interaction, Perceived autonomy",
author = "Maaike Harbers and Peeters, {Marieke M.M.} and Mark Neerincx",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-46665-1",
series = "Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "19--33",
editor = "M.I.A. Ferreira and J.S. Sequeira and M.O. Tokhi and E.E. Kadar and G.S. Virk",
booktitle = "A World with Robots",
edition = "Part 1",
note = "International Conference on Robot Ethics : ICRE 2015 ; Conference date: 23-10-2015 Through 24-10-2015",
}