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We study the reality-gap effect (the effect of the inherent discrepancy between simulation and reality) on the human psychophysiological state, workload and reaction time in the context of a human-swarm interaction scenario. In our experiments, 37 participants perform a supervision task (i.e., the participants have to respond to visual stimuli produced by a robot swarm) with a real robot swarm and with simulated robot swarms. Our results show that the reality-gap significantly affects the human psychophysiological state, workload and reaction time.
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Please note that this particular choice introduces the question of whether any differences observed between virtual reality and simulation are due to the different perspective. As discussed in the conclusions, this aspect will be considered in future work.
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This work was partially supported by the European Research Council through the ERC Advanced Grant “E-SWARM: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems” (contract 246939) to Marco Dorigo. Rehan O’Grady and Marco Dorigo acknowledge support from the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS.
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Podevijn, G., O’Grady, R., Fantini-Hauwel, C., Dorigo, M. (2018). Human Responses to Stimuli Produced by Robot Swarms - the Effect of the Reality-Gap on Psychological State. In: Groß, R., et al. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73008-0_37
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