ABSTRACT
HCI, and its sister discipline, human factors, offers a rich resource for research and design in human-robot interaction. Much has been learned in the last 3 decades about how people perceive and think about computer-based technologies, about human constraints on interaction with machines, about the factors that improve usability, and about the primary and secondary effects of technology on people and organizations. Much of this work will be applicable to robots. Nonetheless, autonomous robots are a distinctive case for several reasons.
