Abstract
This paper presents the first prototype of Sheep and Wolves, a
system for testing interaction and collaboration paradigms between humans and
robots. The paper contributions are twofold: a mixed reality interface for
human-robot interaction, and a practical experimental tool for assessing how
different robotic behavioral patterns affect interaction and collaboration
with users. Sheep and Wolves places humans, robots and virtual entities in a
game environment where they have to collaborate and compete. The system is
designed around the classic Sheep and Wolves board game, played on a large
physical checkerboard. In the prototype presented here the user is playing a
single wolf in a pack of four autonomous robotic wolves trying to hunt a
single virtual sheep. The human interacts with the rest of the wolf pack using
a mixed reality video stream, a graphical interface and a text chat tool that
enables discussion and planning of future moves within the pack. In
preliminary testing Sheep and wolves was sensitive to differences in the
robots behavioral patterns and suggested that robotic assertiveness (or
robotic chutzpah) might enhance the quality and trustfulness of the
interaction.
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