This book offers the first comprehensive yet critical overview of
methods used to evaluate interaction between humans and social robots.
It reviews commonly used evaluation methods, and shows that they are not
always suitable for this purpose. Using representative case studies, the
book identifies good and bad practices for evaluating human-robot
interactions and proposes new standardized processes as well as
recommendations, carefully developed on the basis of intensive
discussions between specialists in various HRI-related disciplines, e.g.
psychology, ethology, ergonomics, sociology, ethnography, robotics, and
computer science. The book is the result of a close, long-standing
collaboration between the editors and the invited contributors,
including, but not limited to, their inspiring discussions at the
workshop on Evaluation Methods Standardization for Human-Robot
Interaction (EMSHRI), which have been organized yearly since 2015. By
highlighting and weighing good and bad practices in evaluation design
for HRI, the book will stimulate the scientific community to search for
better solutions, take advantages of interdisciplinary collaborations,
and encourage the development of new standards to accommodate the
growing presence of robots in the day-to-day and social lives of human
beings.