Slightly Subversive Methods for Promoting Use of Autonomy in Robots

Roboticists have frequently found that users are notoriously unwilling to pass control to autonomy, even when appropriate. It is important to find ways to promote the use of autonomy when switching out of manual mode is needed. This becomes important when autonomy is inherently better equipped to support the task at hand, especially when autonomy is safer than manual control. This paper proposes a selection of slightly subversive interaction design approaches that leverage knowledge about human behavior and may lead to greater utilization of autonomy by robot users. Keywords-component; human-robot interaction, autonomy, interaction design