Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application

Industrial robot programming tools increasingly rely on graphical interfaces, which aim at rendering the programming task more accessible to a wide variety of users. The usability of such tools is currently being evaluated in controlled environments, such as laboratories or companies, in which a gro...

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Autores principales:	Daria Piacun, Tudor B. Ionescu, Sebastian Schlund
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	robot programming user interface evaluation crowdsourcing Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:440542a8f55d41d6844bf133fc6d40d22021-11-25T16:40:18ZCrowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application10.3390/app1122109032076-3417https://doaj.org/article/440542a8f55d41d6844bf133fc6d40d22021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/22/10903https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417Industrial robot programming tools increasingly rely on graphical interfaces, which aim at rendering the programming task more accessible to a wide variety of users. The usability of such tools is currently being evaluated in controlled environments, such as laboratories or companies, in which a group of participants is asked to carry out several tasks using the tool and then fill out a standardized questionnaire. In this context, this paper proposes and evaluates an alternative evaluation methodology, which leverages online crowdsourcing platforms to produce the same results as face-to-face evaluations. We applied the proposed framework in the evaluation of a web-based industrial robot programming tool called <i>Assembly</i>. Our results suggest that crowdsourcing facilitates a cost-effective, result-oriented, and reusable methodology for performing user studies anonymously and online.Daria PiacunTudor B. IonescuSebastian SchlundMDPI AGarticlerobot programminguser interface evaluationcrowdsourcingTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10903, p 10903 (2021)
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description	Industrial robot programming tools increasingly rely on graphical interfaces, which aim at rendering the programming task more accessible to a wide variety of users. The usability of such tools is currently being evaluated in controlled environments, such as laboratories or companies, in which a group of participants is asked to carry out several tasks using the tool and then fill out a standardized questionnaire. In this context, this paper proposes and evaluates an alternative evaluation methodology, which leverages online crowdsourcing platforms to produce the same results as face-to-face evaluations. We applied the proposed framework in the evaluation of a web-based industrial robot programming tool called <i>Assembly</i>. Our results suggest that crowdsourcing facilitates a cost-effective, result-oriented, and reusable methodology for performing user studies anonymously and online.
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title	Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application
title_short	Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application
title_full	Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application
title_fullStr	Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application
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Crowdsourced Evaluation of Robot Programming Environments: Methodology and Application

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