Abstract
People expect appropriate robot actions, interventions, and requests for assistance. As with most technologies, robots that behave in unexpected and inappropriate ways face misuse, abandonment, and sabotage. Complicating this challenge are human misperceptions of robot capability, intelligence, and performance. This talk will summarize work from several projects focused on this human-robot interaction challenge. Findings and examples will be shown from work on human trust in robots, deceptive robot behavior, robot motion, and robot characteristics. It is also important to examine the human-robot system, rather than just the robot. To this end, it is possible to draw lessons learned from related work in crowdsourcing (e.g., Tiramisu Transit) to help inform methods for enabling and supporting contributions by the general public and domain experts.