User Experience and Physiological Response in Human-Robot Collaboration: A Preliminary Investigation

Abstract Within the context of Industry 4.0 and new emerging 5.0, human factors are becoming increasingly important, especially in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC). This paper provides a novel study focused on aspects involved industrial HRC by exploring effects various setting factors. In particular, this aims at investigating impact user experience, affective state, stress, assessed through both subjective measures (i.e., questionnaires) objective ones physiological signals). A collaborative assembly task was implemented with different configurations, which robot movement speed, distance between operator workspace, control execution time were varied. Forty-two participants provided feedbacks interaction quality their state. Participants’ responses electrodermal activity heart rate) also collected non-invasively to monitor amount stress generated interaction. Analysis revealed how configuration considered influence them. Robot speed resulted be most influential The results showed need for customization improve ergonomics, psychological physical, well-being operator.