Short description:

This book is a vital resource for both students new to the field and experienced researchers and practitioners. The book?s practical focus and clear elucidation of relevant case studies ensures that this will greatly benefit progress in the field with human-centred and ethical experimental methodology.

Long description:

Leading figures in Australian robotics research provide an overview and guidance for human?robot interaction (HRI) experimental design and evaluation methodologies that consider the ethical implications of the research and its applications from a human-centred and contextual perspective. The authors explain introductory and advanced topics in HRI with a focus on human-centred evaluation and ethical practices. They also provide an online interactive checklist tool for novice HRI researchers and students to deploy when designing their own studies.

The book is structured into three parts. In Part I, the authors first review fundamental methodologies and provide an interactive checklist tool of the HRI experimental study life cycle to guide beginners to the field. Part II introduces an expanded set of approaches to support researchers and practitioners to create high-quality study designs that draw on practices from human-computer interaction, human-centred artificial intelligence, psychology and social science, and advance ethical HRI research. Finally, in Part III, the authors discuss a selection of HRI studies as examples of how the introduced methodologies are adopted, which will support the readers to further understand the fundamental and advanced methodologies described in Parts I and II. The diverse collection of case studies enables readers to grasp the state of the art and apply what they have learned in their own practices.

This book is a vital resource for both students new to the field and experienced researchers and practitioners. The book?s practical focus and clear elucidation of relevant case studies, from its introduction to the HRI experimental study life cycle through to advanced methods emerging in the field, ensures that this will greatly benefit progress in the field with human-centred and ethical experimental methodology.

Table of Contents:

I Introduction to human?robot interaction (HRI) experiment methodology 1. Life Cycle of an HRI Study and an Interactive Study Design Check-List 2. Developing Research Questions and Hypotheses 3. Study Context and Experimental Design 4. Identifying and Recruiting Participants 5. Quantitative Evaluation Methods 6. Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis 7. Reporting Findings and Designing Follow-Up Studies II Advanced Topics in HRI methodology 8. A Framework for Ethical HRI Research 9. Interdisciplinary Approach to HRI research 10. Advanced Statistical Analysis Methods in Quantitative HRI Research 11. Qualitative and Mixed Method Evaluation for HRI 12. Qualitative Data and Mixed Methods Data Analysis III Case studies 13. Participatory Design with Stakeholders 14. Recruiting Domain Experts and Specific User Populations 15. Simulated Humans and Sim2Real Studies 16. Leveraging Online Studies to Expand Diversity, Sample Size and Response Quality 17. Measuring Interaction with Multimodal Data 18. Challenges and Future Directions of Experiments in HRI