Usability study through a human-robot collaborative workspace experience

The use of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial and academic settings facilitates physical and cognitive interaction with operators. This framework is a challenge to determine how measures on concepts, such as usability, can be adapted to these new environments. Usability is a quality attribu...

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Autores: Chacón Encalada, Luis Alejandro|||0000-0003-3515-4352, Ponsa Asensio, Pere|||0000-0001-6306-7251, Angulo Bahón, Cecilio|||0000-0001-9589-8199
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/351262
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/351262
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/designs5020035
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Human-computer interaction
Robotics
Usability
Human-robot interaction
Workload
Benchmarking
Interacció persona-ordinador
Robòtica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica
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Sumario:The use of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial and academic settings facilitates physical and cognitive interaction with operators. This framework is a challenge to determine how measures on concepts, such as usability, can be adapted to these new environments. Usability is a quality attribute prevalent in the field of human-computer interaction concerning the context of use and the measure of effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of products and systems. In this work, the importance of the role of benchmarking usability with collaborative robots is discussed. The introduced approach is part of a general methodology for studying people and robots’ performance in collaboration. It is being designed and developed on a concrete experience into a human-robot collaborative workspace. Outcomes from the study include a list of steps, resources, recommendations, and some customized questionnaires to obtain cobot-oriented usability analysis and case study results