Trust and capability transfer between tasks and environments is common in human-human interactions. For human-robot interac- tions it is unclear how a robot’s performance of a task in one envi- ronment affects humans predictions about the robot’s performance of another related or unrelated task in a different environment. Results from three HRI experiments showed that because individual judgments about robots' capabilities varied dramatically, no systematic trust and task transfer result could be obtained. The upshot for HRI is that trust and task transfer seem to solely depend on the individual’s background and judgment rather than on task or environmental properties as we originally hypothesized.
@inproceedings{lawetal24tas,
title={Trust Transfer in Robots between Task Environments},
author={T. Law and M. Chita-Tegmark and M.Scheutz},
year={2024},
booktitle={\em Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24)},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/lawetal24tas.pdf}
}