First Impressions Are Essential: Testing Attraction Strategies for Robot-Human Interaction in the Higher Education Domain

K Smit, C De Gelder, J Van Meerten - Proceedings of the 2023 7th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social robots are often ignored in public places. What can such a robot do to attract more
people to achieve its goals? In this study, we investigate what a social robot needs to do to …

[PDF][PDF] User acceptance of social robots

IA Hameed, ZH Tan, NB Thomsen… - Proceedings of the Ninth …, 2016 - researchgate.net
A mismatch between the user's expectations and the actual reality of social robots may
negatively impact the acceptance and use of the robot. Given that the use of personal robots …

How would store managers employ social robots?

C Shi, S Satake, T Kanda… - 2016 11th acm/ieee …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We conducted a field study to investigate the social acceptance of social robots by stores,
particularly for attracting passersby, which today's robots can autonomously perform. From …

Pepper on the Job: Applying Social Robots in Employee Training

M Donnermann, F Rossin… - 2023 32nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advancing digitization in working environments brings up the necessity of lifelong learning
as well as technology-supported employee training. Research on social robots has already …

Facilitating software development for mobile social robots by simulating interactions between a robot and pedestrians

S Satake, T Kaczmarek, D Brscic… - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We are facilitating software development for mobile social robots that operatein the wild': that
is, in real daily environments such as shopping malls. One fundamental difficulty in …

The influence of robot design on acceptance of social robots

J Barnes, M FakhrHosseini, M Jeon… - … on ubiquitous robots …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a rapidly growing area of research and the important
factors of the relationship between robots and the people who use them are still being …

The effects of eye design on the perception of social robots

M Luria, J Forlizzi, J Hodgins - 2018 27th IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Engagement with social robots is influenced by their appearance and shape. While robots
are designed with various features, almost all designs have some form of eyes. In this paper …

Let's Go to the Mall: Investigating the Role of User Experience in Customers' Intention to Use Social Robots in a Shopping Mall

D Golchinfar, DD Vaziri, G Stevens… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Aim of this study is to investigate the effects of user experience (UX) on shopping mall
customers' intention to use a social robot. Therefore, we used a Wizard of Oz approach that …

Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall

I Aaltonen, A Arvola, P Heikkilä, H Lammi - … of the companion of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We took a social robot Pepper to a shopping mall for one day to see what kind of initial
responses it draws from people. We observed that the robot was quickly surrounded by …

Would you obey an aggressive robot: A human-robot interaction field study

S Agrawal, MA Williams - 2018 27th IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social Robots have the potential to be of tremendous utility in healthcare, search and
rescue, surveillance, transport, and military applications. In many of these applications …