Presentation
The Role of Anthropometry and Biomechanics in Judging Others’ Maximum Horizontal Reach: Insights for Caregiver Robot Development
SessionPoster Session 1
DescriptionFor effective caregiving robot design, understanding how humans perceive action capabilities is crucial. Our aim is to design caregiver robots to perceive whether people are capable of a given action. Our approach is to study how people perceive whether other people are capable of a given action and to use what we learn to design caregiver robots. Eighty participants viewed point-light displays of actors (short/tall) with markers on different body regions (full body, upper body, lower body, or ankles only) in either moving or stationary conditions. Participants adjusted an object to the distance they believed represented the actor's maximum horizontal reach, with responses converted to absolute percent error scores. A two-way ANOVA revealed a significant point-light marker configuration main effect, (F(3, 79) = 9.14, p < .001, η² = .276), while finding no significant effects for the movement or the interaction condition. Post-hoc t-tests showed significantly lower error rates in the Full Body and Upper Body conditions compared to Lower Body and Ankles Only conditions. These findings suggest that people attend to static upper body information in relation to object distance when perceiving others' maximum horizontal reach capabilities.
Event Type
Poster
TimeTuesday, October 14th5:30pm - 6:30pm CDT
LocationRiverside East