Perception of humanoid social mediator in two-person dialogs

Tahir, Yasir; Rasheed, Umer; Dauwels, Shoko; Dauwels, Justin

doi:10.1145/2559636.2559831

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“…They have been used as peers or companions in learning with the students (Okita et al, 2009 ), or tutors in which the robot teaches students (Belpaeme et al, 2018b ). Moreover, social robots have been used as teachers using frontal lecture mode (Sisman et al, 2018 ), one-on-one interaction (Short et al, 2014 ; Gordon et al, 2015 ) and even in two-person dialogues (Tahir et al, 2014 ). Several studies have addressed how a single robot can interact with small groups of children (Leite et al, 2015 ; Strohkorb et al, 2015 ), elderly (Matsuyama et al, 2008 ), and adults (Matsuyama et al, 2015 ).…”

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Robot-Supported Collaborative Learning (RSCL): Social Robots as Teaching Assistants for Higher Education Small Group Facilitation

2020

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Acknowledging the benefits of active learning and the importance of collaboration skills, the higher education system has started to transform toward utilization of group activities into lecture hall culture. In this study, a novel interaction has been introduced, wherein a social robot facilitated a small collaborative group activity of students in higher education. Thirty-six students completed a 3 h activity that covered the main content of a course in Human Computer Interaction. In this within-subject study, the students worked in groups of four on three activities, moving between three conditions: instructor facilitation of several groups using pen and paper for the activity; tablets facilitation, also used for the activity; and robot facilitation, using tablets for the activity. The robot facilitated the activity by introducing the different tasks, ensuring proper time management, and encouraging discussion among the students. This study examined the effects of facilitation type on attitudes toward the activity facilitation, the group activity, and the robot, using quantitative, and qualitative measures. Overall students perceived the robot positively, as friendly and responsive, even though the robot did not directly respond to the students' verbal communications. While most survey items did not convey significant differences between the robot, tablet, or instructor, we found significant correlations between perceptions of the robot, and attitudes toward the activity facilitation, and the group activity. Qualitative data revealed the drawbacks and benefits of the robot, as well as its relative perceived advantages over a human facilitator, such as better time management, objectivity, and efficiency. These results suggest that the robot's complementary characteristics enable a higher quality learning environment, that corresponds with students' requirements and that a Robot Supportive Collaborative Learning (RSCL) is a promising novel paradigm for higher education.

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Robot-Supported Collaborative Learning (RSCL): Social Robots as Teaching Assistants for Higher Education Small Group Facilitation

2020

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“…A step further in assisting people with the management of their social behavior is to provide feedback that supports positive social behavior. Tahir et al [58] used a Nao robot for providing real-time feedback to participants in a dyadic conversation. The Nao sensed and recorded conversational cues (e.g., number of natural turns, speaking percentage, interruptions etc.)…”

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Assistive Robots for the Social Management of Health: A Framework for Robot Design and Human–Robot Interaction Research

Chita-Tegmark

Scheutz

2020

Int J of Soc Robotics

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There is a close connection between health and the quality of ones social life. Strong social bonds are essential for health and wellbeing, but often health conditions can detrimentally affect a persons ability to interact with others. This can become a vicious cycle resulting in further decline in health. For this reason, the social management of health is an important aspect of healthcare. We propose that socially assistive robots (SARs) could help people with health conditions maintain positive social lives by supporting them in social interactions. This paper makes three contributions, as detailed below. We develop a framework of social mediation functions that robots could perform, motivated by the special social needs that people with health conditions have. In this framework we identify five types of functions that SARs could perform: a) changing how the person is perceived, b) enhancing the social behavior of the person, c) modifying the social behavior of others, d) providing structure for interactions, and e) changing how the person feels. We thematically organize and review the existing literature on robots supporting human-human interactions, in both clinical and non-clinical settings, and explain how the findings and design ideas from these studies can be applied to the functions identified in the framework. Finally, we point out and discuss challenges in designing SARs for supporting social interactions, and highlight opportunities for future robot design and HRI research on the mediator role of robots.

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“…Probably the most prevailing approach in HRI is when the embodiment and behavior of the robot contain a mix of human-like and machine-like features (Kanda, Shimada, & Koizumi, 2012;Ogawa et al, 2011;Tahir et al, 2014;). This can cause misunderstandings about the robots' actual abilities (Miklósi & Gácsi, 2012;Rose, Scheutz, & Schermerhorn, 2010) and can lead to disappointment from the users' perspective.…”

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“…In some papers on animalrobot interaction they are referred to as ethnodroids (Wiles et al, 2016), but this term is too anthropomorphic, while another frequently used term, animat, refers not only to robots but also to computer simulated virtual agents (see the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior). In human-robot interactions, robots are named variously as humanoids (Tahir, Rasheed, Dauwels, & Dauwels, 2014), androids, or geminoids (Becker-Asano & Ishiguro, 2011;Oh et al, 2006) depending on their perceived similarity to humans. Considering the long utilization of the term animat, we suggest that it should be used in general by researchers to refer to these agents.…”

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Methodological challenges of the use of robots in ethological research

Abdai¹,

Korcsok²,

Köröndi³

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Artificial models have been used as interactive partners for decades to study the social behavior of animals. Recent technological developments have opened up novel possibilities by allowing researchers to use remote controlled and autonomous objects in these studies, and Animal-Robot Interaction has become an emerging field of behavior science. However, there are theoretical, methodological and practical issues in ethological research using robotic agents. Here we aimed to provide an overview on robots by classifying them along different aspects to facilitate future research, and to present some novel approaches that could be considered as a guide for researchers who are new to the fields of animal-robot interactions (ARI) and human-robot interactions (HRI). The present review may facilitate future collaboration between biologists/psychologists, robot developers, engineers and programmers that further contributes to the development of novel research methods and procedures.

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Perception of humanoid social mediator in two-person dialogs

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Robot-Supported Collaborative Learning (RSCL): Social Robots as Teaching Assistants for Higher Education Small Group Facilitation

Robot-Supported Collaborative Learning (RSCL): Social Robots as Teaching Assistants for Higher Education Small Group Facilitation

Assistive Robots for the Social Management of Health: A Framework for Robot Design and Human–Robot Interaction Research

Methodological challenges of the use of robots in ethological research

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