TY - GEN
T1 - Characterizing Evacuee Behavior during a Robot-Guided Evacuation
AU - Nayyar, Mollik
AU - Paik, Ghanghoon
AU - Yuan, Zhenyuan
AU - Zheng, Tongjia
AU - Zhu, Minghui
AU - Lin, Hai
AU - Wagner, Alan R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This research explores evacuee responses to robot-guided evacuation. During the conduct of a human-robot experiment we trigger a smoke alarm on unsuspecting subjects. The robot offers to led the subjects to a distant, less familiar exit. We capture the subjects decision to follow, evacuation characteristics, and impressions of the robot over individual and group conditions and two different approaches to designing evacuation robots. We ran a total of 112 subjects across various conditions and find that, overall, 95.28% of participants followed the robot's guidance. We further show that, although the amount of time evacuees wait prior to evacuating does not differ between the conditions, the total evacuation time is less when a multi-robot approach is taken. We also present a series of preliminary results on related exploratory studies.
AB - This research explores evacuee responses to robot-guided evacuation. During the conduct of a human-robot experiment we trigger a smoke alarm on unsuspecting subjects. The robot offers to led the subjects to a distant, less familiar exit. We capture the subjects decision to follow, evacuation characteristics, and impressions of the robot over individual and group conditions and two different approaches to designing evacuation robots. We ran a total of 112 subjects across various conditions and find that, overall, 95.28% of participants followed the robot's guidance. We further show that, although the amount of time evacuees wait prior to evacuating does not differ between the conditions, the total evacuation time is less when a multi-robot approach is taken. We also present a series of preliminary results on related exploratory studies.
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U2 - 10.1109/SSRR59696.2023.10499953
DO - 10.1109/SSRR59696.2023.10499953
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85191943750
T3 - Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2023
SP - 119
EP - 125
BT - Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2023
Y2 - 13 November 2023 through 15 November 2023
ER -