Emotional Bodily Expressions for Culturally Competent Robots through Long Term Human-Robot Interaction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen ◽  
Sungmoon Jeong ◽  
Nak Young Chong
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Robot Interaction

scholarly journals Towards a communication model for a sociable companion robot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Anxiety has a lifetime prevalence of 31% of Canadians (Katzman et al. 2014). In Canada, psychological services are only covered by provincial health insurance if the psychologist is employed in the public sector; this means long wait times in the public system or expensive private coverage (Canadian Psychological Association). Currently, social robots and Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) are used in the treatment of elderly individuals in nursing homes, as well as children with autism (Feil-Seifer & Matarić, 2011; Tapus et al., 2012). The following MRP is the first step in a long-term project that will contend with the issues faced by individuals with anxiety using a combined communications, social robotics, and mental health approach to develop an anxiety specific socially assistive robot companion. The focus of this MRP is the development of a communication model that includes three core aspects of a social robot companion: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), anxiety disorders, and technical design. The model I am developing will consist of a series of suggestions for the robot that could be implemented in a long-term study. The model will include suggestions towards the design, communication means, and technical requirements, as well as a model for evaluating the robot from a Human-Robot- Interaction perspective. This will be done through an evaluation of three robots, Sphero’s BB-8 App Enabled Droid, Aldebaran’s Nao, and the Spin Master Zoomer robot. Evaluation measures include modified versions of Shneiderman’s (1992) evaluation of human-factors goals, Feil-Seifer et al.’s (2007) SAR evaluative questions, prompts for the description of both the communication methods and the physical characteristics, and a record of the emotional response of the user when interacting with the robot.

scholarly journals Towards a communication model for a sociable companion robot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assistive Robots ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Robot Evaluation ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Anxiety has a lifetime prevalence of 31% of Canadians (Katzman et al. 2014). In Canada, psychological services are only covered by provincial health insurance if the psychologist is employed in the public sector; this means long wait times in the public system or expensive private coverage (Canadian Psychological Association). Currently, social robots and Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) are used in the treatment of elderly individuals in nursing homes, as well as children with autism (Feil-Seifer & Matarić, 2011; Tapus et al., 2012). The following MRP is the first step in a long-term project that will contend with the issues faced by individuals with anxiety using a combined communications, social robotics, and mental health approach to develop an anxiety specific socially assistive robot companion. The focus of this MRP is the development of a communication model that includes three core aspects of a social robot companion: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), anxiety disorders, and technical design. The model I am developing will consist of a series of suggestions for the robot that could be implemented in a long-term study. The model will include suggestions towards the design, communication means, and technical requirements, as well as a model for evaluating the robot from a Human-Robot- Interaction perspective. This will be done through an evaluation of three robots, Sphero’s BB-8 App Enabled Droid, Aldebaran’s Nao, and the Spin Master Zoomer robot. Evaluation measures include modified versions of Shneiderman’s (1992) evaluation of human-factors goals, Feil-Seifer et al.’s (2007) SAR evaluative questions, prompts for the description of both the communication methods and the physical characteristics, and a record of the emotional response of the user when interacting with the robot.

scholarly journals Long-term evaluation of a social robot in real homes

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje M. A. de Graaf ◽  
Somaya Ben Allouch ◽  
Jan A. G. M. van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Control Beliefs ◽  
Mere Exposure Effect ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Exposure Effect ◽  
Term Evaluation ◽  
Interaction Research

Abstract This study aims to contribute to emerging human-robot interaction research by adding longitudinal findings to a limited number of long-term social robotics home studies. We placed 70 robots in users’ homes for a period of up to six months, and used questionnaires and interviews to collect data at six points during this period. Results indicate that users’ evaluations of the robot dropped initially, but later rose after the robot had been used for a longer period of time. This is congruent with the so-called mere-exposure effect, which shows an increasing positive evaluation of a novel stimulus once people become familiar with it. Before adoption, users focus on control beliefs showing that previous experiences with robots or other technologies allows to create a mental image of what having and using a robot in the home would entail. After adoption, users focus on utilitarian and hedonic attitudes showing that especially usefulness, social presence, enjoyment and attractiveness are important factors for long-term acceptance.

scholarly journals FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing and Publishing Online Social Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Mavridis ◽  
Michael Petychakis ◽  
Alexandros Tsamakos ◽  
Panos Toulis ◽  
Shervin Emami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Evaluation Methodologies ◽  
Episodic Memories ◽  
Early Interaction

AbstractThe overarching goal of the FaceBots project is to support the achievement of sustainable long-term human-robot relationships through the creation of robots with face recognition and natural language capabilities, which exploit and publish online information, and especially social information available on Facebook, and which achieve two significant novelties. The underlying experimental hypothesis is that such relationships can be significantly enhanced if the human and the robot are gradually creating a pool of episodic memories that they can co-refer to (“shared memories”), and if they are both embedded in a social web of other humans and robots they mutually know (“shared friends”). We present a description of system architecture, as well as important concrete results regarding face recognition and transferability of training, with training and testing sets coming from either one or a combination of two sources: an onboard camera which can provide sequences of images, as well as facebook-derived photos. Furthermore, early interaction-related results are presented, and evaluation methodologies as well as interesting extensions are discussed.

scholarly journals AIBOStory – Autonomous Robots supporting Interactive, Collaborative Story-telling

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fotios Papadopoulos ◽  
Kerstin Dautenhahn ◽  
Wan Ching Ho
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Autonomous Robot ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Remote Communication ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Communication Software

AbstractThis article describes the design and evaluation of AIBOStory - a novel, remote interactive story telling system that allows users to create and share common stories through an integrated, autonomous robot companion acting as a social mediator between two remotely located people. The behaviour of the robot was inspired by dog behaviour, including a simple computational memory model. AIBOStory has been designed to work alongside online video communication software and aims to enrich remote communication experiences over the internet. An initial pilot study evaluated the proposed system’s use and acceptance by the users. Five pairs of participants were exposed to the system, with the robot acting as a social mediator, and the results suggested an overall positive acceptance response. The main study involved long-term interactions of 20 participants using AIBOStory in order to study their preferences between two modes: using the game enhanced with an autonomous robot and a non-robot mode which did not use the robot. Instruments used in this study include multiple questionnaires from different communication sessions, demographic forms and logged data from the robots and the system. The data was analysed using quantitative and qualitative techniques to measure user preference and human-robot interaction. The statistical analysis suggests user preferences towards the robot mode.

scholarly journals Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Irfan ◽  
Aditi Ramachandran ◽  
Samuel Spaulding ◽  
Dylan F. Glas ◽  
Iolanda Leite ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction
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