My Familiar Robot Companion: Preferences and Perceptions of CHARLY, a Companion Humanoid Autonomous Robot for Living with You

Walters, Michael L.; Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Dumitriu, Anna; May, Alex; Christiansen, Bruce A.; Koay, Kheng Lee

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_27

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“…However, when further deepening into the human shaped creations, the participants stated that they would not want a robot in their homes that resembles the appearance of a human. This result is in line with Walters et al (2012) who's respondents also indicated that they would not want a very humanlike robot, but would prefer to own a robot with certain humanlike attributes and capabilities.…”

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Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

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Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

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“…While some preliminary results regarding social role expectations have been published in [64], the following analysis is for the purpose of examining the underlying structure of these social roles, and their demographic correlates, in order to assess their validity as a measure for HRI studies.…”

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“…The exhibition featured several different robots. The computer used for this survey was placed near an exhibit titled My Robot Companion, created by the artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May in collaboration with researchers from the UH [64]. The questionnaire itself consisted of two parts: The first part included demographic information including age and gender, as well as a question on participants computers use.…”

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Social Roles and Baseline Proxemic Preferences for a Domestic Service Robot

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The goal of our research is to develop socially acceptable behavior for domestic robots in a setting where a user and the robot are sharing the same physical space and interact with each other in close proximity. Specifically, our research focuses on approach distances and directions in the context of a robot handing over an object to a user. Our present study consisted of two parts. Firstly, we carried out a large-scale survey trying to identify the internal structure between users' different social role expectations and the relationships between these and users' technology usage. Results from this study led to the development of a measure for preferred robot social roles. In the second part, this measure was used in a live human-robot interaction (HRI) study in a home setting, designed to create a baseline understanding of The work described in this paper was conducted within the EU Integrated Projects LIREC (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions, funded by the European Commission under contract numbers FP7 215554, and partly funded by the ACCOMPANY project, a part of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007(FP7/ -2013 human-robot Proxemics approach directions and distances for a Care-O-bot 3 based on these roles. In order to support users interpretation of the robots intentions in those tasks, the HRI studies used a simple LED light display panel. Findings indicate that, participants were comfortable with the robot approaching to the closest implemented distance (0.5 m). For the task requiring relatively more coordination, participants preferred the robot to approach from the front to a larger extent than for tasks requiring less coordination. The ability to identify the signals from the LED display also impacted how participants evaluated the robots behaviour. Users who had previous experience of interacting with robots differentiated less between approaches, and also evaluated tasks requiring more coordination with the robot more favourably. The findings in the short-term sample were strongly influenced by expectations as to the social role expectation they had of the robot, suggesting that social expectations impact proxemic interactions even if the robot platform is clearly not humanoid.

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My Familiar Robot Companion: Preferences and Perceptions of CHARLY, a Companion Humanoid Autonomous Robot for Living with You

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

Social Roles and Baseline Proxemic Preferences for a Domestic Service Robot

Artists as HRI Pioneers: A Creative Approach to Developing Novel Interactions for Living with Robots

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