Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots

Shirley A. Elprama; Charlotte I. C. Jewell; An Jacobs; Ilias El Makrini; Bram Vanderborght

doi:10.1145/3029798.3038309

Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots

Shirley A. Elprama, Charlotte I. C. Jewell, An Jacobs, Ilias El Makrini, Bram Vanderborght

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Abstract

Despite the predicted growth of the amount of collaborative robots, little attention has been paid to the attitudes and needs of potential future users of these robots (e.g. factory workers). The main goal of our study was to identify recommendations to improve collaboration between robots and factory workers. We used the collaborative robot Baxter as a probe to elicit repsonses from factory workers in order to explore their perceptions regarding working with robots. We conducted four interviews with two factory workers simultaneously participating in each interview (n = 8). These interviews were analyzed and our findings suggest that workers believe robots can and have taken people's jobs. However, they also believe that robots can decrease their workload.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	ACM New York
Pages	113-114
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450348850
ISBN (Print)	9781450348850
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038309
Publication status	Published - 6 Mar 2017
Event	Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017) - Vienna, Austria Duration: 6 Mar 2017 → 9 Mar 2017

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Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Conference	Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017)
Abbreviated title	HRI2017
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	6/03/17 → 9/03/17

Keywords

factory
human-robot collaboration
interviews
manufacturing

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Elprama, S. A., Jewell, C. I. C., Jacobs, A., El Makrini, I., & Vanderborght, B. (2017). Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots. In HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 113-114). (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)). ACM New York. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038309

Elprama, Shirley A. ; Jewell, Charlotte I. C. ; Jacobs, An ; El Makrini, Ilias ; Vanderborght, Bram. / Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots. HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM New York, 2017. pp. 113-114 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)).

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Elprama, SA, Jewell, CIC, Jacobs, A , El Makrini, I & Vanderborght, B 2017, Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots. in HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), ACM New York, pp. 113-114, Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017), Vienna, Austria, 6/03/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038309

Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots. / Elprama, Shirley A.; Jewell, Charlotte I. C.; Jacobs, An ; El Makrini, Ilias ; Vanderborght, Bram.

HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM New York, 2017. p. 113-114 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)).

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Elprama SA, Jewell CIC, Jacobs A , El Makrini I , Vanderborght B. Attitudes of factory workers towards industrial and collaborative robots. In HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM New York. 2017. p. 113-114. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)). https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038309

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