Effects of the Robot’s Role on Human-Robot Interaction in an Educational Scenario

Blancas, Maria; Vouloutsi, Vasiliki; Grechuta, Klaudia; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_39

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“…The examination of the attribution of emotional states, mental capabilities, perceived personality and interaction styles of robotic platforms goes beyond the scope of this study, however, such issues need to be addressed in future work. Finally, given the fact that the role assumed by the robot affects how users perceive it [35], [5], a systematic approach is needed to ensure the robot's role meets children's expectations.…”

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Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Blancas

Vouloutsi

Fernando

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)

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Abstract-The use of robots as educational partners has been extensively explored, but less is known about the required characteristics these robots should have to meet children's expectations. Thus the purpose of this study is to analyze children's assumptions regarding morphology, functionality, and body features, among others, that robots should have to interact with them. To do so, we analyzed 142 drawings from 9 to 10 years old children and their answers to a survey provided after interacting with different robotic platforms. The main results convey on a gender-less robot with anthropomorphic (but machine-like) characteristics.

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Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Blancas

Vouloutsi

Fernando

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)

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“…Although "small-to-medium" effects may not seem like compelling findings, persuasion is a subtle and sophisticated social process (2). Many social HRI studies have observed no statistically significant persuasion effects due to factors including embodiment (90), animacy (91), competence (92), communication style (93), or even when independently investigating formal (47,48) or real (50,51) authority. We consider the small-tomedium effects observed here to be important to heed, given the subtlety and difficulty of observing factors influencing persuasion in both human-human interactions and HRI.…”

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Persuasive robots should avoid authority: The effects of formal and real authority on persuasion in human-robot interaction

Saunderson

Nejat

2021

Sci. Robot.

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Social robots must take on many roles when interacting with people in everyday settings, some of which may be authoritative, such as a nurse, teacher, or guard. It is important to investigate whether and how authoritative robots can influence people in applications ranging from health care and education to security and in the home. Here, we present a human-robot interaction study that directly investigates the effect of a robot's peer or authority role (formal authority) and control of monetary rewards and penalties (real authority) on its persuasive influence. The study consisted of a social robot attempting to persuade people to change their answers to the robot's suggestion in a series of challenging attention and memory tasks. Our results show that the robot in a peer role was more persuasive than when in an authority role, contrary to expectations from human-human interactions. The robot was also more persuasive when it offered rewards over penalties, suggesting that participants perceived the robot's suggestions as a less risky option than their own estimates, in line with prospect theory. In general, the results show an aversion to the persuasive influence of authoritative robots, potentially due to the robot's legitimacy as an authority figure, its behavior being perceived as dominant, or participant feelings of threatened autonomy. This paper explores the importance of persuasion for robots in different social roles while providing critical insight into the perception of robots in these roles, people's behavior around these robots, and the development of human-robot relationships.

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“…The impact was measured on the perception and subjective experience of the user and on task performance and learning outcome [Blancas et al, 2015. Regarding learning outcome, experiments so far indicate that although we can measure improvement in performance successfully with a post-test, the improvement was not yet significantly different between conditions of different robot behavior.…”

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The EASEL Project: Towards Educational Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction

Reidsma

Charisi

Davison

et al. 2016

Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

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Effects of the Robot’s Role on Human-Robot Interaction in an Educational Scenario

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings

Persuasive robots should avoid authority: The effects of formal and real authority on persuasion in human-robot interaction

The EASEL Project: Towards Educational Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction

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