Title :
Five Weeks in the Robot House Exploratory Human-Robot Interaction Trials in a Domestic Setting
Author :
Koay, Kheng Lee ; Syrdal, Dag Sverre ; Walters, Michael L. ; Dautenhahn, Kerstin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Abstract :
This paper presents five exploratory trials investigating scenarios likely to occur when a personal robot shares a home with a person. The scenarios are: a human and robot working on a collaborative task, a human and robot sharing a physical space in a domestic setting, a robot recording and revealing personal information, a robot interrupting a human in order to serve them, and finally, a robot seeking assistance from a human through various combinations of physical and verbal cues. Findings indicate that participants attribute more blame and less credit to a robot than compared to themselves when working together on a collaborative task. Safety is a main concern when determining participants´ comfort when sharing living space with their robot. Findings suggest that the robot should keep its interruption of the user´s activities to a minimum. Participants were happy for the robot to store information which is essential for the robot to improve its functionality. However, their main concerns were related to the storing of sensitive information and security measures to safeguard such information.
Keywords :
home automation; human-robot interaction; collaborative task; domestic setting; human-robot interaction trials; personal information; personal robot; robot house; security measures; sensitive information; Adaptive systems; Collaborative work; Computer science; Educational institutions; Home computing; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems; Safety; HRI; Longitudinal Study; Robot House; Social Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2009. ACHI '09. Second International Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3351-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3529-6
DOI :
10.1109/ACHI.2009.62