Welcome

This HIT has 2 parts; the first involves controlling a robot to clean a bedroom in a game, and the second involves watching and rating several videos of robots cleaning a bedroom.

At the end, we'll ask your age and gender. Note that before we accept your work, we'll check for indications that you didn't follow instructions

The whole task should take about 20 minutes. You can complete this HIT multiple times. This HIT is designed to be compatible with recent version of desktop Chrome and Firefox. It does not support mobile devices or Safari.

The next pages describe this research and the data collected in more detail.

Qualification

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CONSENT FORM
ONLINE SURVEY - PERCEPTIONS OF A ROBOT

Researchers' statement

We are asking you to be in a research study. The purpose of this consent form is to give you the information you will need to help you decide whether to be in the study or not. Please read the form carefully. You may ask questions about the purpose of the research, what we would ask you to do, the possible risks and benefits, your rights as a volunteer, and anything else about the research or this form that is not clear. When we have answered all your questions, you can decide if you want to be in the study or not. This process is called "informed consent."

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

This project aims to better understand how people perceive task-oriented robots. We are evaluating how different behaviors impact the perception of a robot.

STUDY PROCEDURES

In this study, you will be asked to watch clips and organize them into groups. After you have grouped them, you'll be asked to describe the groups. At the end, you will be asked to answer additional questions about the clips you saw. The study will take about 15 minutes total.

RISKS, STRESS, OR DISCOMFORT

This study does not present any risks that are greater than those of daily activities that involve using a personal computer or laptop.

BENEFITS OF THE STUDY

This research will inform the design of intelligent robots. You will not individually benefit from participation in the study.

SOURCE OF FUNDING

The study team and/or the University of Washington is receiving financial support from Honda Research Institute.

OTHER INFORMATION

You may refuse to participate and you are free to withdraw from this study at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.

CONFIDENTIALITY OF RESEARCH INFORMATION

All of the information you provide will be confidential. There will be no association between your name and the answers you provide. The recordings will be analyzed by our research team to assess the effectiveness of the different behaviors used by the robot. Sample videos or snapshots from these recordings may be used in scientific articles or talks.

Part 1: Controlling the Robot

In this part, we'll tell you a style (like "curious" or "efficient") and ask you to make the robot clean the bedroom in that style. This can be tricky, but try to think of what you can make the robot do that would make someone watching say that it's behaving in the given style. You'll repeat this for a total of 2 styles. Here's the interface you'll use for controlling the robot:

  • Click on the interface to enable the controls. Click elsewhere on the page to disable them.
  • Use your keyboard's arrow keys to move the robot up, down, right, or left
  • Wait for the bar to fill if you want the robot to stop in a location. The robot will flash each time the pause is recorded. You can wait as many times as you like and the robot will stop for longer.
  • The green trail drawn behind the robot is to help you remember the robot's motion
  • The blue-shaded squares are the bedroom area. You can choose to ignore the bedroom if you think it fits the style
  • The path will finish when you return to the start
  • If you make a mistake and want to restart, press the reset button
  • Once the path is finished, you can press Play to see your path
  • The bar will turn from red to green when the path is finished

Before you continue, navigate the robot into the bedroom to verify that the controls work

Part 2: Rating robots

In this part you'll look at videos showing a robot vacuum cleaner that's been asked to clean the bedroom. We'll ask you to rate each robot on several scales. You'll repeat this for a total of 4 videos.

  • Once a video has played once, you can scrub through it or restart it if you need to watch it again
  • It's okay if you don't know how to rate a certain question; mark it "I don't know"
  • You may use the "tab", arrow and space keys to quickly navigate and select from the ratings control buttons

Warm up

Please watch this instructional video. All the questions you'll be asked for each video are shown below. Responses on this page are optional, so please continue to the next page once you are familiar with the playback controls and questions.

The remaining videos and questions are part of the task. Please refer back to the instructions if you need to.

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