TY - GEN
T1 - Adopt-a-robot : a story of attachment (or the lack thereof)
AU - Herath, Damith C.
AU - Kroos, Christian
AU - Stevens, Catherine
AU - Burnham, Denis
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Robots have diffidently started to invade human spaces, but are still limited to very rudimentary forms such as robot vacuum cleaners and various entertainment platforms. Dramatic changes with respect to the number of robots in homes and offices, however, can be foreseen for the near future as sensing, computing and associated technologies mature. Currently, it is not known how we humans will treat machine companions when they will be with us over prolonged periods of time and share our personal space. In this exploratory study we investigated whether participants would form a bond with a small, basic research robot in an adoption scenario whereby the robot's initial interaction abilities were upgraded in two steps. We were particularly interested in investigating whether any increases in attachment would be related to the 2 steps of progressively heightened technical sophistication of the robot over a prolonged (six month) period of time.
AB - Robots have diffidently started to invade human spaces, but are still limited to very rudimentary forms such as robot vacuum cleaners and various entertainment platforms. Dramatic changes with respect to the number of robots in homes and offices, however, can be foreseen for the near future as sensing, computing and associated technologies mature. Currently, it is not known how we humans will treat machine companions when they will be with us over prolonged periods of time and share our personal space. In this exploratory study we investigated whether participants would form a bond with a small, basic research robot in an adoption scenario whereby the robot's initial interaction abilities were upgraded in two steps. We were particularly interested in investigating whether any increases in attachment would be related to the 2 steps of progressively heightened technical sophistication of the robot over a prolonged (six month) period of time.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/530951
UR - http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2013/
U2 - 10.1109/HRI.2013.6483538
DO - 10.1109/HRI.2013.6483538
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9781467330992
SP - 135
EP - 136
BT - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2013), 3-6 March 2013, Tokyo, Japan
PB - IEEE
T2 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Y2 - 3 March 2013
ER -