犬と共存する配達ロボットのための配慮あるナビゲーション:予備実験が示す異種間の読み取りやすさと代理指標の課題
Robot Navigation and Canine Welfare: A Pilot Study Surfacing Challenges for Cross-Species Legibility and Proxy Validity in Animal-Machine Interaction
犬の警戒距離で横に弧を描いて通過する「カーブアウト」動作を家庭環境で試したところ、直進よりストレス反応が強まった。ロボットの不連続な動きが読み取りやすさを損ない、それ自体がストレス源になったと考察する。
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著者: Haoxiang Zhang, Nancy Smith
分類: cs.HC, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Autonomous delivery robots increasingly share residential spaces with companion animals, yet navigation behavior is rarely designed with animal welfare in mind. This paper presents a pilot study evaluating a curve-out maneuver, a laterally arcing pass-by trajectory triggered at the dog's alert distance, proposed as a candidate welfare-informed navigation intervention grounded in canine social communication research and legible motion theory. Following a research through design approach, we developed and evaluated a first design iteration of the artifact in a naturalistic home environment with a companion dog. Contrary to our hypothesis, the curve-out produced a more acute stress response than the straight-line baseline. We argue that discontinuous execution limitation, the robot stopping and reorienting multiple times to approximate the arc, undermined legibility, which in itself became a stressor. The pilot surfaces the legibility of robot behavior to non-humans' eyes and proxy stimulus validity as structural challenges for AMI and repositions the design problem for future work.