Abstract
In any tele-operation environment, the behavioral system of the "worker" is imposed to physically separate into two parts: the cognitive and the performatory part of the worker. The former is mainly taken on by a human operator while the latter is done by his surrogate performer, i.e., a remote controlled robot. Such a divorce of the behavioral system may disrupt the perceptual-motor couplings and then the coordinations among different subordinate behaviors. This work focused on those cooperation structures between perceptual and motor systems in ambulation, and compared some perceptual evidences of a mobile robot tele-operation with those of naturalistic human ambulatory movements (walking and bike-riding) from a perspective of ecological phsychology. Effects of a purposefully embedded connection between robotic behaviors for viewing and ambulation were examined in terms of the system behaviors and usability.
