Effects of coupling dynamics on human-robot teaching

Determine how the temporal and behavioral coupling dynamics between human teaching interactions and robot learning processes affect human-robot teaching effectiveness and human perceptions of the teaching process.

Background

Human-robot teaching systems increasingly couple human instruction with online robot learning, but the timing, frequency, and visibility of robot learning updates can differ substantially across systems. These differences may influence both the quality of robot learning and how human teachers understand and adapt to the learner.

The paper introduces a taxonomy based on coupling dynamics and applies it preliminarily to a subset of the human-robot teaching literature. Because the authors characterize the effects of coupling on teaching effectiveness and human perceptions as currently unclear, determining these effects remains an unresolved research problem rather than a question conclusively settled by the taxonomy or literature analysis.