Towards Considerate Human-Robot Coexistence: A Dual-Space Framework of Robot Design and Human Perception in Healthcare

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04374v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:49:48 GMT
• Title: Towards Considerate Human-Robot Coexistence: A Dual-Space Framework of Robot Design and Human Perception in Healthcare
• Abstract summary: rapid advancement of robotics reshaping what it means for humans and robots to coexist.<n>Coexistence increasingly characterized by organizational embeddedness, temporal evolution, social situatedness, and open-ended uncertainty.<n>We propose considerate human-robot coexistence, arguing that humans act not only as design contributors but also as interpreters and mediators.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid advancement of robotics, spanning expanded capabilities, more intuitive interaction, and more integration into real-world workflows, is reshaping what it means for humans and robots to coexist. Beyond sharing physical space, this coexistence is increasingly characterized by organizational embeddedness, temporal evolution, social situatedness, and open-ended uncertainty. However, prior work has largely focused on static snapshots of attitudes and acceptance, offering limited insight into how perceptions form and evolve, and what active role humans play in shaping coexistence as a dynamic process. We address these gaps through in-depth follow-up interviews with nine participants from a 14-week co-design study on healthcare robots. We identify the human perception space, including four interpretive dimensions (i.e., degree of decomposition, temporal orientation, scope of reasoning, and source of evidence). We enrich the conceptual framework of human-robot coexistence by conceptualizing the mutual relationship between the human perception space and the robot design space as a co-evolving loop, in which human needs, design decisions, situated interpretations, and social mediation continuously reshape one another over time. Building on this, we propose considerate human-robot coexistence, arguing that humans act not only as design contributors but also as interpreters and mediators who actively shape how robots are understood and integrated across deployment stages.

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