Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings

Omar Mubin; Thomas D’Arcy; Ghulam Murtaza; Simeon Simoff; Chris Stanton; Catherine Stevens

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926315

Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings

Omar Mubin, Thomas D’Arcy, Ghulam Murtaza, Simeon Simoff, Chris Stanton, Catherine Stevens

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Meetings are an integral part of the work place and society in general. Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work attempts to facilitate and make the process of meetings more effective. Our vision is that the incorporation of social robots in such human-human collaborative settings can assist and improve the effectiveness of a meeting. In this paper we present an empirical study in which pairs of participants collaborate in a meeting scenario with a Nao humanoid robot. Using a within-subjects design, we manipulated the robot's role within the meeting as being either "active" versus "passive"/"service-oriented". Our results show that the more active robot was deemed as more more alive and social, had the participants more emotionally involved and caused more verbal engagement from the participants as compared to a passive service robot. In conclusion, we speculate on the inclusion of a collaborative robot as a meeting partner.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	580-585
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781479967636
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926315
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication - Duration: 25 Aug 2014 → …

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Conference	IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
Period	25/08/14 → …

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Mubin, O., D’Arcy, T., Murtaza, G., Simoff, S., Stanton, C., & Stevens, C. (2014). Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (pp. 580-585). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926315

Mubin, Omar ; D’Arcy, Thomas ; Murtaza, Ghulam et al. / Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. IEEE, 2014. pp. 580-585

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Mubin, O, D’Arcy, T, Murtaza, G, Simoff, S , Stanton, C & Stevens, C 2014, Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings. in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. IEEE, pp. 580-585, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 25/08/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926315

Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings. / Mubin, Omar; D’Arcy, Thomas; Murtaza, Ghulam et al.
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. IEEE, 2014. p. 580-585.

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Mubin O, D’Arcy T, Murtaza G, Simoff S , Stanton C , Stevens C. Active or passive? : investigating the impact of robot role in meetings. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014): Human-Robot Co-Existence: Adaptive Interfaces and Systems for Daily Life, Therapy, Assistance and Socially Engaging Interactions, August 25-29, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. IEEE. 2014. p. 580-585 doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926315

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