This work illustrates how artistic robotic systems can provide a reservoir of unfamiliarity and a basis for speculation, to open the field toward new ways of thinking about HRI. We reflect on a collaborative project between design students, a media art studio, and design researchers working with the baggage handling department of the Schiphol airport. Engaging with the industrial context, we developed 'metabehaviours' - abstracted ideas of processes carried out on the worksite-and passed these over to the students who translated them into robotic enactions using a predefined hardware developed by the media art studio. The resulting visit experience challenges the audience to decode the installation in terms of metabehaviours and their possible relations to industrial HRI. We used this to reflect on the value of conducting artistic and speculative work in HRI and to distil actionable recommendations for future research.

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This study investigates error handling intricacies in supervised autonomy orbit-to-ground teleoperation for space exploration robots, emphasizing scenarios with communication delays that render Earth-based ground control assistance unfeasible. In this setting, one major challenge lies in empowering the crew to independently mitigate robot errors that may occur as the robot plans its actions. To address this limitation of current supervised autonomy interfaces, we propose a third-person perspective and game design principles to improve environmental awareness in error situations. 16 experts with similar technical background as the target crew members tested the interface in a physical user study, while 42 people assessed it in an online study. We conclude that a third-person view brings significant improvements to mental workload, overall experience and the ability to identify and rectify planning errors.@en