What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say researchers. A new study identifies how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers.
What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of an award-winning paper. Led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems .
"We're not the first ones to develop guide-dog robots," says Donghyun Kim, assistant professor in the UMass Amherst Manning College of Information and Computer Science and one of the corresponding authors of the award-winning paper."There are 40 years of study there, and none of these robots are actually used by end users.
"When the handler trusts the dog and gives more autonomy to the dog, it's a bit delicate," says Kim."We cannot just make a robot that is fully passive, just following the handler, or just fully autonomous, because then feels unsafe." These are just a few of the findings in the paper. Others include: adding more camera orientations to help address overhead obstacles; adding audio sensors for hazards approaching from the occluded regions; understanding 'sidewalk' to convey the cue,"go straight," which means follow the street ; and helping users get on the right bus .
"The most exciting aspect of winning this award is that the research community recognizes and values our direction," says Kim."Since we don't believe that guide dog robots will be available to individuals with visual impairments within a year, nor that we'll solve every problem, we hope this paper inspires a broad range of robotics and human-robot interaction researchers, helping our vision come to fruition sooner.
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