Will you follow the robot's advice? the impact of robot types and task types on people's perception of a robot

Art appraiser; Autonomous robot; Human-robot interaction; Qualitative task; Quantitative task; Teleoperated robotTsukuba EXPO'85 Memorial Foundatio

Application of intelligent product design on STEAM education

In this paper, a STEAM education was developed by applying intelligent product design. One promising approach to improve children's STEAM attitudes, knowledge, and skills is to utilize robotics in the program. As an intelligent product is a robot with the shape of the common object intelligent product design could allow children to learn robotics and product design. Field trial of STEAM education was held at a Korean elementary school for two weeks. After the field trial, children evaluated the perception toward a common product and a developed intelligent product. The results showed that the intelligent product was perceived more positively and intelligent than the common product. © 2015 ACM.ACM SIGCHI;Brain Engineering Society of Korea (BESK

The effects of the robot's information delivery types on users' perception toward the robot

This study aims to investigate the effects of information delivery types on users' perception toward the robot. We executed two experiments to explore appropriate information delivery types in each situation. In the first study, we compared which type of information delivery is suitable to the situation that the robot conveys environment states. In the second study, we examined a proper information delivery type in the situation that the robot conveys its internal states. We conducted a 3(information delivery types: speech vs. reflexive cue vs. none) within-participants experiment (N=24) both in the first study and in the second study. The results of the study showed that participants perceived a robot with the reflexive cue as more anthropomorphic and animate than one with speech and one without response. In addition, participants evaluated the service of the robot with the reflexive cue more positively than the robot with speech and the robot without the response in the both studies. © 2017 IEEE.Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Plannin

Can you feel me?: How embodiment levels of telepresence systems affect presence

Since a telepresence system is a system intended to be used in interpersonal communication, conveying the presence of a remote sender is an important issue. Robotic telepresence system is a newer variant of a telepresence system. Even though robot characteristics of having physical embodiment could be effective on building presence of itself, this could yield distortion of presence of a remote sender in telepresence. Thus, in order to determine effective methods of increasing sender presence during telecommunication, we perform a two within-participants experiment, considering the effects of the embodiment levels, by comparing a weakly-embodied telepresence system, a tablet and a strongly-embodied telepresence system, a telepresence robot (number of participants, N = 48). In this study, the participants engage in conversations with a remote sender either through a tablet or a telepresence robot. The results show that participants have a lesser sense of sender presence for a strongly-embodied telepresence system compared to the weakly-embodied telepresence system. On the other hand, participants perceived more presence of a telepresence system toward a strongly-embodied telepresence system than a weakly-embodied telepresence system. The implications of these findings are the weakly-embodied telepresence systems would be effectively used in settings where emotional connection is a priority. In addition, incorporating sensory modalities should be considered for neutralizing the negative effects of strong embodiment on presence. © 2016 IEEE.IEEE;IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS);Korea Robotics Society (KROS);The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ

The Effects of Organism- Versus Object-Based Robot Design Approaches on the Consumer Acceptance of Domestic Robots

The current size of the market for domestic robots is smaller than expected, despite the rapid advance in robotic technologies. On the basis of the previous literature, we attempt to make a distinction between two design approaches for domestic robots: organism- versus object-based robot designs. This research investigates the effects of these domestic robot design approaches on consumer acceptance. Encompassing the theories of Human–Robot Interaction, design, and marketing, we predict that object-based robot design will be more effective than organism-based robot design for consumers’ evaluation of and intent to purchase domestic robots. We also predict that the categorization of robots will mediate the effects of robot design approaches on the evaluation. Two studies using two types of robots were conducted, and the results supported the hypotheses. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

Can you touch me? the impact of physical contact on emotional engagement with a robot

Communicator types; Humanness; Productness; Robot characteristics; Shyness; Social presenceTsukuba EXPO'85 Memorial Foundatio

Can robots be sold? The effects of robot designs on the consumers' acceptance of robots

Categorization; Human-oriented robot; Human-robot interaction; Marketing; Product-oriented robot; Robot designsACM SIGAI;ACM SIGCHI;IEEE Robotics and Automatio

The Effect of Robot Appearance Types and Task Types on Service Evaluation of a Robot

Robot's appearance types could be classified into two types: human-oriented and product-oriented. Human-oriented robot resembles human's appearance whereas product-oriented robot is an intelligent product that robotic technologies are integrated into existing product. In this study, we investigated the impact of two robot appearance types and two task types on service evaluation of a robot. We executed a 2 (robot appearance types: human-oriented vs. product-oriented) x 2 (robot task types: social context vs. task-oriented context) mixed-participants experiment design (N=48). In the case of social context, people evaluated the service provided by a human-oriented robot better than by a product-oriented robot while in the case of task-oriented context, they evaluated the service provided by a product-oriented robot more positively than by a human-oriented robot. Implications for the design of human-robot interaction are discussed. © 2015 Authors.ACM SIGAI;ACM SIGCHI;IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS

Are you embarrassed?: The impact of robot types on emotional engagement with a robot

Autonomous robot; Embarrassment; Emotional communication; Social presence; Tele-operated robotACM SIGAI;ACM SIGCHI;IEEE Robotics and Automatio