What are the benefits and considerations when selecting an uncrewed robot versus sending humans to a rescue site?

Human victims in SAR form a special population that

needs to be handled differently from the everyday people

typifying general human-robot interaction (HRI) studies.

Accordingly, it is important for rescue robots to be capable of

interacting with emotionally-sensitive humans in SAR

contexts.

In a crisis, victims’ emotional state can seriously affect

their safety . When victims’ cooperation is required during

the SAR tasks, managing their emotions is important. For this

reason, rescuers sometimes hide the truth of the situation and

act deceptively such as not describing the severity of injuries

or the situation to victims accurately.

We also argue that a rescue robot can establish a better

bond with human victims by having the capabilities of

deception. As a goal, we aim for a rescue robot to perform a

deceptive behavior only for the purpose of helping the

deceived human victim. In our previous research, we

defined this type of deception as other-oriented robot

deception. Conversely, other-oriented

deception is motivated by the benefits that accrue to the

person who is being deceived. We similarly classify a robot’s

deception capabilities into these two categories. Finally, we

can formulate our research hypothesis

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