The Effects of User Adaptability to Automation for a Robotic Art Box

This experiment is looking to expand the knowledge about the idea that a robot can help increase the productivity of an individual performing a task, the robot's behavior can influence performance. This experiment uses a robot with remote controlled wheels that was hidden inside an art box. The approach taken to test the hypothesis was to separate users in three groups, each of these characterized by a unique form in which the robot would interact with the subjects. The three groups were categorized by its interaction mode: Proactive, Reactive and Manual. The first group found a robot that interacted with them in an insistent way, the second one only when the subject completed a task and the third one when the user explicitly requested its assistance. The experiment results are meaningful, because although there's no significant difference regarding quality of work between modes, there exists a difference in time of completion of the task, which is proof of a change in efficiency.