Understanding On-the-Fly End-User Robot Programming

Novel end-user programming (EUP) tools enable on-the-fly (i.e., spontaneous, easy, and rapid) creation of interactions with robotic systems. These tools are expected to empower users in determining system behavior, although very little is understood about how end users perceive, experience, and use...

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Published in:arXiv.org
Main Authors: Stegner, Laura, Hwang, Yuna, Porfirio, David, Mutlu, Bilge
Format: Paper
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 02.06.2024
Subjects:
End users
Programming
Robots
User experience
User interfaces
ISSN:2331-8422
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Summary:Novel end-user programming (EUP) tools enable on-the-fly (i.e., spontaneous, easy, and rapid) creation of interactions with robotic systems. These tools are expected to empower users in determining system behavior, although very little is understood about how end users perceive, experience, and use these systems. In this paper, we seek to address this gap by investigating end-user experience with on-the-fly robot EUP. We trained 21 end users to use an existing on-the-fly EUP tool, asked them to create robot interactions for four scenarios, and assessed their overall experience. Our findings provide insight into how these systems should be designed to better support end-user experience with on-the-fly EUP, focusing on user interaction with an automatic program synthesizer that resolves imprecise user input, the use of multimodal inputs to express user intent, and the general process of programming a robot.
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ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2406.00841