Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
9 results found in Human-Robot Interaction.
- Bite Acquisition
- In robot-assisted feeding, the stage in which a robot uses a utensil to pick up a piece of food from a plate or bowl. Bite acquisition is a core technical challenge in assistive feeding robotics becau…
- Bite Transfer
- In robot-assisted feeding, the stage of the feeding cycle in which a robot arm moves food already on a utensil from a pickup location into the user's mouth. Bite transfer is distinct from bite acquisi…
- Delegation (Human-Robot Interaction) (Delegation, Task delegation to robot)
- In human-robot interaction, the explicit transfer of a task or decision from a human to a robot. Delegation is a form of shared control in which authority for a specific subtask — for example, asking …
- Mutual Support (Mutual support in HRI, Mutual assistance)
- In accessibility and human-robot interaction research, a framing that moves beyond one-way robot-supports-user or user-supervises-robot models toward a bidirectional relationship in which each party c…
- Omakase (Omakase mode, I leave it to you)
- A Japanese word — literally 'I leave it to you' — adopted in human-robot interaction and assistive-AI research to describe a mode of user involvement in which the person defers all decisions to the sy…
- Robotic Guide Dog (Robot Guide Dog, Quadruped Guide Robot)
- A mobile robot — typically a quadruped platform — designed to provide navigation and obstacle-avoidance support for blind and low-vision users, filling a role analogous to that of a trained guide dog.…
- Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS, RoSAS-SF, Robotic Social Attributes Scale Short Form)
- A validated psychometric instrument developed by Carpinella et al. (2017) that measures how people perceive the social attributes of a robot along three subscales: Warmth (how likable, friendly, and c…
- Social Navigation (Socially-aware navigation, Socially compliant robot navigation)
- In robotics, the problem of moving through an environment that contains people, in a way that respects social norms, comfort, and safety. Social navigation goes beyond obstacle avoidance: it requires …
- Social Robot Navigation (Socially-aware robot navigation, Social navigation)
- A subfield of robotics concerned with how a mobile robot should move through environments shared with humans — choosing paths, speeds, and timings that respect social norms as well as physical obstacl…