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Bridging the Awareness Gap: Socially Mediated State Externalization for Transparent Distributed Home Robots
Description
Distributed multi-robot systems for the home often require robots to operate out of the user's sight, creating a state awareness gap that can diminish trust and perceived transparency and control. This paper investigates whether real-time, socially mediated state externalization can bridge this gap without compromising task performance. We developed a system where a co-located social mediator robot (Pepper) externalizes the hidden execution states of an out-of-sight mobile manipulator (Stretch~3