A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Perceived Safety in Human–Robot Interaction

Abstract Safety is a fundamental prerequisite that must be addressed before any interaction of robots with humans. has been generally understood and studied as the physical safety in human–robot interaction, whereas how humans perceive these received less attention. Physical necessary condition for safe interaction. However, it not sufficient condition. A robot by hardware software design can still perceived unsafe. This article focuses on We identified six factors are closely related to based literature insights obtained from our user studies. The context use, comfort, experience familiarity robots, trust, sense control over transparent predictable actions. then made review identify robot-related influence safety. Based literature, we propose taxonomy which includes human-related factors. These help researchers quantify during their interactions robots. quantification yield computational models would allow mitigating psychological harm.