Sharing spaces, sharing lives - The impact of robot mobility on user perception of a home companion robot

Syrdal, D.S., Dautenhahn, K., Koay, K.L., Walters, M.L. and Ho, W. (2013) Sharing spaces, sharing lives - The impact of robot mobility on user perception of a home companion robot. In: Social Robotics : 5th Int Conf, ICSR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer Nature, pp. 321-330. ISBN 978-3-319-02674-9
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This paper examines the role of spatial behaviours in building human-robot relationships. A group of 8 participants, involved in a long-term HRI study, interacted with an artificial agent using different embodiments over a period of one and a half months. The robot embodiments had similar interactional and expressive capabilities, but only one embodiment was capable of moving. Participants reported feeling closer to the robot embodiment capable of physical movement and rated it as more likable. Results suggest that while expressive and communicative abilities may be important in terms of building affinity and rapport with human interactants, the importance of physical interactions when negotiating shared physical space in real time should not be underestimated.


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