Investigating the effect of increasing robot group sizes on the human psychophysiological state in the context of human–swarm interaction

Swarm Intelligence - Tập 10 - Trang 193-210 - 2016
Gaëtan Podevijn1, Rehan O’Grady1, Nithin Mathews1, Audrey Gilles2, Carole Fantini-Hauwel2, Marco Dorigo1
1IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2Research Centre of Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Psychosomatic, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Tóm tắt

We study the psychophysiological state of humans when exposed to robot groups of varying sizes. In our experiments, 24 participants are exposed sequentially to groups of robots made up of 1, 3 and 24 robots. We measure both objective physiological metrics (skin conductance level and heart rate), and subjective self-reported metrics (from a psychological questionnaire). These measures allow us to analyse the psychophysiological state (stress, anxiety, happiness) of our participants. Our results show that the number of robots to which a human is exposed has a significant impact on the psychophysiological state of the human and that higher numbers of robots provoke a stronger response.

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