Bridging Teacher Expectations and Robot Learning via Coupling Dynamics

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Title:Bridging Teacher Expectations and Robot Learning via Coupling Dynamics

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Abstract:Human-robot teaching focuses on enabling nontechnical experts to customize robots according to their needs after deployment. With recent advances in machine learning, human-robot teaching is no longer confined to offline learning where the data gathering step from a human teacher is separated from when the robot learns. Instead, more recent approaches for human-robot teaching focus on coupling human teaching with robot learning. This coupling impacts the structure, timing, and content of the teaching and learning interaction. However, it is currently unclear how such coupling dynamics affect humanrobot teaching effectiveness and human perceptions towards the teaching process. Informed by human learning theories, in this paper we propose a new scale for classifying human-robot teaching interactions according to coupling dynamics present between the human teacher and robot learner. We apply this scale to a subset of the human-robot teaching literature to identify how coupling dynamics and human teacher mental model mismatches with the ground truth robot learning system affect teaching effectiveness and human perceptions towards the teaching process

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure

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Robotics (cs.RO); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

Cite as: arXiv:2608.23994 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2608.23994v1 [cs.RO] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.23994

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From: Sean Dallas [view email] [v1] Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:34:26 UTC (256 KB)

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