Designing Robots in the Wild: In situ Prototype Evaluation for a Break Management Robot

Šabanović, Selma; Reeder, Sarah; Kechavarzi, Bobak D.

doi:10.5898/jhri.3.1.sabanovic

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“…These kinds of studies entail methodological challenges on how to collect the data in the participants' homes. Questionnaires, interviews, sensor and robot logs are usually used [57]. Sensor and data logs are perceived as objective ways of collecting data, since they do not involve researchers invading the homes of the participants.…”

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Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Frennert

Eftring

Östlund

2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The current paper addresses the implications of doing research on socially assistive robots in real homes. In contrast to laboratory studies, studies of robots in their intended natural environments can provide insights into people's experiences of robots, and if and how a robot becomes embedded and used in people's everyday life. However, moving robots out of the lab and into real life environments poses several challenges. Laboratory methods mainly focus on cause-and-effect relations between independent and dependent variables, while researchers who are conducting studies in real homes have much less control. In home trials, researchers need to decide what kind of data is obtainable and available. In real homes, researchers face unique challenges that require unique and pragmatic approaches. Any single study conducted in a real home is likely to have methodological limitations. Therefore, several different studies using different robots and methods are needed before the results can be converged in order to reach conclusions that are convincingly supported. This paper is an effort to provide such a report on a specific empirical case and converging findings from other studies. The goal is to provide an account of the research challenges and opportunities encountered when introducing a robot into its intended practice: the homes of older people. The aim is to give enough details for other

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Frennert

Eftring

Östlund

2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…Then, a key role is played by the prototyping actions. From low-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes, tangible artifacts, which appear or behave as desired, allow fast testing and iterations, as reported by Šabanović et al [23]. Finally, usability testing represents another common action in the design of novel robots.…”

Section: The Role Of Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 96%

Ethic Reflections about Service Robotics, from Human Protection to Enhancement: Case Study on Cultural Heritage

Giuliano¹,

Lupetti²,

Khan³

et al. 2017

Robotics - Legal, Ethical and Socioeconomic Impacts

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In a vision of future implications of human-robot interactions, it is vital to investigate how computer ethics and specifically roboethics could help to enhance human's life. In this chapter, the role of design expertise will be emphasized by setting multiple disciplines into a constructive dialogue. The reflections will take into consideration different themes, such as acceptability and aesthetics, but above all the ability to generate value and meaning in different contexts. These contexts could find a description in the concept of human enhancement, connected through each other with the skills of the design research. The methodology of the design research will find applicability in the case study of Virgil, where a roboethic approach is contextualized into a cultural heritage field. In this field, it is shown how the ethical approach will bring a benefit to local communities, but at large to any social and cultural strategies involved in the stakeholders' network.

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“…Vázquez et al found that not only a copy of human orientation behavior (attentive orientation) but also an optimized orientation (middle orientation) can be an effective starting point for robot orientation behavior [73]. Sabanovic, Reeder, and Kechavarzi have shown that social behavior, not copied from humans, was preferred over alarm type behavior for minimalistic desk robots [66]. However, guidelines and approaches on how such behaviors should be designed, to our knowledge are scarce.…”

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Beyond R2D2

Ludden

Evers

2019

J. Hum.-Robot Interact.

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Robots are expected to enter the everyday lives of people to entertain, educate, or support them. It is therefore important that people can intuitively understand the behavior of robots. Oftentimes, the behavior of people is used as a model because of its familiarity. However, it is as yet unclear what the best approach is to design interaction behaviors for non-humanoid robots. In this article, we explore two different approaches toward designing behavior for a service robot. The first concerns the commonly used approach of copying human behavior as closely as possible to the robot (human-translated). The second approach was inspired by product design methods. The design of the robot's behavior was optimized for the robot's interaction capabilities and hardware modalities (robot-optimized). To evaluate people's responses to the two behavior sets for a tour guide robot, an online video study (N = 204) and a two-day in-the-wild study (N > 600) were performed. Results showed that participants responded slightly more positive to robot-optimized behavior and paid attention to robot-optimized behavior for longer. However, participants remembered more details when the robot showed human-translated behavior. Together, the studies show that it is sometimes better for non-humanoid robots to have robot-optimized behaviors rather than human-translated behaviors. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → HCI design and evaluation methods;

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Designing Robots in the Wild: In situ Prototype Evaluation for a Break Management Robot

Cited by 76 publications

References 55 publications

Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Case Report: Implications of Doing Research on Socially Assistive Robots in Real Homes

Ethic Reflections about Service Robotics, from Human Protection to Enhancement: Case Study on Cultural Heritage

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