STB: Child-Dependent Sociable Trash Box

Yamaji, Youhei; Miyake, Taisuke; Yoshiike, Yuta; Silva, P. Ravindra S. De; Okada, Michio

doi:10.1007/s12369-011-0114-y

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“…To solve this, we can draw on a similar development, the "Child-Dependent Sociable Trash Box (STB)" [16]. This robot, which aims to engage children to collect trash and put it into it, was tested with 108 children (4-11 years old).…”

Section: Design Rationale and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Which robot behavior can motivate children to tidy up their toys?

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Lemaignan

Dillenbourg

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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We present the design approach and evaluation of our prototype called "Ranger". Ranger is a robotic toy box that aims to motivate young children to tidy up their room. We evaluated Ranger in 14 families with 31 children (2-10 years) using the Wizard-of-Oz technique. This case study explores two different robot behaviors (proactive vs. reactive) and their impact on children's interaction with the robot and the tidying behavior. The analysis of the video recorded scenarios shows that the proactive robot tended to encourage more playful and explorative behavior in children, whereas the reactive robot triggered more tidying behavior. Our findings hold implications for the design of interactive robots for children, and may also serve as an example of evaluating an early version of a prototype in a real-world setting.

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Section: Design Rationale and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Which robot behavior can motivate children to tidy up their toys?

Fink

Lemaignan

Dillenbourg

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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“…Attempting to use a "minimally social" robot, as discussed in Section II-B, we used the Sociable Trash Box (STB) robots (Figures 1 and 2) [28]. These robots have anthropomorphic traits (e.g., eye, arms), but are still far from humanlike.…”

Section: A Robot Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three's company, or a crowd?: The effects of robot number and behavior on HRI in Japan and the USA

Fraune¹,

Kawakami²,

Šabanović³

et al. 2015

Robotics: Science and Systems XI

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Abstract-In everyday applications of robotics, people will likely interact with groups of robots. Most human-robot interaction (HRI) research to date, however, has studied humans interacting with individual robots. Initial research suggests that humans respond differently to individual robots and robots in groups, making responses to groups of robots critical to study. This paper presents a study performed in a public setting familiar to participants (university cafeterias) to examine how participants respond when robots, individually and in groups, enter their space. We examined participant survey and behavioral responses to different numbers of robots (Single or Group) with different behaviors (Social or Functional). Because robots will be used across cultures, we performed the study in Japan and the USA. Across cultures, we found that people interact more with robots in groups than single robots, yet report similar levels of liking for both; participants also rated social robots as more friendly and helpful than functional robots in general. They rated single social robots more positively than a group of social robots, but a group of functional robots more positively than single functional robots. Japanese participants reported liking the robots more than USA participants. This suggests that researchers and designers should be aware of how robot characteristics influence group effects.Social human-robot interaction, group effects, robot behavior, cross-cultural study

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“…Social Trash Box finds waste and then approaches it. It does not collect waste by itself but induce people around to collect and then put the waste into it [2]. AUR robotic desk lamp recognizes user"s working space to lighten [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%