Adapting the Human: Leveraging Wearable Technology in HRI

TL;DR

This paper proposes using wearable technologies like AR displays and sensor tags to adapt humans in HRI, reducing robot complexity and environmental constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach of leveraging wearable tech to shift complexity from robots to humans in HRI environments.

Findings

Wearable tech can effectively reduce robot complexity.

Human adaptation enables more flexible HRI scenarios.

Potential for less structured environments in HRI.

Abstract

Adhering to current HRI paradigms, all of the sensors, visualisation and legibility of actions and motions are borne by the robot or its working cell. This necessarily makes robots more complex or confines them into specialised, structured environments. We propose leveraging the state of the art of wearable technologies, such as augmented reality head mounted displays, smart watches, sensor tags and radio-frequency ranging, to "adapt" the human and reduce the requirements and complexity of robots.