Presentation
Identifying To What People Attend When Perceiving Others’ Maximum Vertical Reach
SessionPoster Session 1
Event Type
Poster
TimeWednesday, October 12th3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
LocationPoster Gallery
DescriptionAssistive robots should perceive people’s action capabilities so they can determine whether people require assistance. One way to achieve that would be to program them to utilize the information that people utilize when perceiving other people's action capabilities. Unfortunately, we do not know exactly what information people utilize when perceiving others’ action capabilities. Toward that end, this study investigated to what body segments do people attend when perceiving whether an actor can reach something and whether they extract information from actors’ movements. Results suggested participants extracted something a) available from a static display, b) available from displays that depicted either actors’ upper or lower bodies, and c) not available from displays that depicted actors’ ankles. Actor height meets all those criteria. This study moves us towards a better understanding of what information people utilize when perceiving others’ reach-ability and thus towards assistive robots that perceive people’s reaching abilities.