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“Adventures of Harvey” – Use, Acceptance of and Relationship Building with a Social Robot in a Domestic Environment
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_10, author={Tineke Klamer and Somaya Ben Allouch and Dirk Heylen}, title={“Adventures of Harvey” -- Use, Acceptance of and Relationship Building with a Social Robot in a Domestic Environment}, proceedings={Human-Robot Personal Relationships. Third International Conference, HRPR 2010, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={HRPR}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Social robots usage and acceptance of social robots relationship-building elderly people domestic environments}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_10} }- Tineke Klamer
Somaya Ben Allouch
Dirk Heylen
Year: 2012
“Adventures of Harvey” – Use, Acceptance of and Relationship Building with a Social Robot in a Domestic Environment
HRPR
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19385-9_10
Abstract
The goal of this study was to improve our understanding about how older people use social robots in domestic environments and in particular whether and how they build relationships with these robots. Three participants interacted with the Nabaztag, a social robot, for a 10-day period in their own home environment. Some of our findings are (1) utilitarian-, hedonic-, and social factors are important when accepting social robots, (2) utilitarian-, hedonic- and social factors are important for building a relationship with the Nabaztag, (3) there is a relationship between name-calling and relationship building and (4) there is a relationship between using non-verbal- and verbal communication and relationship building.
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