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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "social robots"

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Addressing loneliness in the workplace through human-robot interaction Development and evaluation of a social office robot concept
    (i-com: Vol. 22, No. 1, 2023) Busch, Melina; Lindermayer, Tim; Schuster, Klara; Zhang, Jonas; von Terzi, Pia
    New work has been a topic for a few years now and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought this trend more into focus, i.e., working remotely became more popular. However, besides various advantages, there is the risk of loneliness in employees, which can negatively affect their work performance and mental health. Research in different domains suggests that social robots could reduce loneliness. Since we were interested in whether and how such findings are transferable to the office context, we developed and tested a concept for a social office robot. More specifically, we first conducted a cultural probes study with white-collar workers to gain information about workplace loneliness and its drivers. Second, we explored design possibilities for a social office robot in a focus group. Based on the results, we created a concrete concept, Luca, which we finally evaluated and optimized with the help of interviews with participants from various industries. The present work contributes to HRI research and practice, e.g., by providing design recommendations for the implementation of a social office robot. Future research could investigate the effectiveness of a social office robot intervention in field studies. Next to implications for research and practice, potential limitations are discussed.
  • Workshopbeitrag
    Customizing Social Assistant Robots - Concepting Functionalities and Aesthetics
    (Mensch und Computer 2022 - Workshopband, 2022) Paananen, Siiri; Eckhoff, Emma; Häkkilä, Jonna; Ahtinen, Aino; Väänänen, Kaisa
    In this paper, we discuss customizing of social robots, including personal assistant robots, focusing on aesthetics and functionalities. The results of a robot co-design workshop related to customizing social robots are presented. The proposed customization examples include items such as clothes, accessories and different visuals and sounds for various scenarios and tasks, including home and remote work settings.
  • Textdokument
    EAVE: Emotional Aerial Vehicle Evaluator
    (INFORMATIK 2020, 2021) Lieser, Marc; Schwanecke, Ulrich; Berdux, Jörg
    Today, semi-autonomous quadrotors are already available at affordable prices and have the potential to become part of everyday life due to the variety of possible applications. To ensure that people feel safe around quadrotors and to optimize flight times, their size should be kept to a minimum which results in their appearances remaining purely functional. This reduces the possibility of adding anthropomorphic or zoomorphic features that are typically used in order to increase acceptability by conveying the robot's intent or emotion. Constrained by mechanical appearance, other non-verbal communication channels can be exploited instead, in particular robot motion. The application EAVE presented in this paper was developed with the idea to design and evaluate trajectories that breathe life into inanimate, mechanical quadrotors in order to improve interaction in human-robot companionships. It extends our existing quadrotor testbed ICARUS, which is capable of tracking arbitrary trajectories of real and simulated quadrotors that were designed using EAVE. We demonstrate that applying some of the established principles of character animation to the design of quadrotor trajectories opens up the possibility of conveying intent and improving interaction, though the appearance of the quadrotor remains purely functional.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Mechanischer versus humanoider aussehende Assistenzroboter: Was trauen ihnen Nutzer zu? Eine Untersuchung jüngerer versus älterer Nutzer
    (Mensch und Computer 2019 - Tagungsband, 2019) Oehl, Michael; Kamps, Michelle; Sutter, Christine
    Diese experimentelle Studie untersucht die Akzeptanz jüngerer (vs. älterer) Nutzer für persönliche Roboterassistenz in unterschiedlichen Aufgabenbereichen und vergleicht diese für Roboter mit unterschiedlichem holistischen Design. Auf Basis der deutschen Version der „Assistance Preference Checklist“ für Roboterassistenzakzeptanz beurteilten N = 70 jüngere Probanden als zukünftige Nutzer sozialer Roboter ihre prospektive Akzeptanz für Roboterassistenz für sechs unterschiedliche Tätigkeitsbereiche. In einem ausbalancierten Studiendesign mit Messwiederholung wurden zwei unterschiedliche Robotertypen präsentiert, die die zwei Stufen der experimentellen Variablen „holistisches Design“ (mechanischer = PR2 vs. humanoider = Pepper) darstellten. Altersspezifische Unterschiede in der Beurteilung wurden durch einen Vergleich mit einer Stichprobe von N = 47 älteren Probanden untersucht. Erwartungskonform zeigten die jüngeren Probanden Offenheit für Roboterassistenz und eine selektive Akzeptanz für unterschiedliche Tätigkeits-bereiche. Das Design des Roboters hatte bei den jüngeren Nutzern einen stärkeren Einfluss auf die Beurteilung als bei den älteren Nutzern. Grundsätzlich zeigte sich, dass die jüngeren Probanden den Robotern in den Kategorien „Persönliche Pflege“ und „Hausarbeit“ (Pepper) sowie „Freizeitaktivitäten“ (Pepper und PR2) mehr zutrauten als die älteren Probanden. Die Studienergebnisse ermöglichen eine differenziertere, nutzer-basierte Gestaltung von Assistenzrobotern.
  • Workshopbeitrag
    User Experience and Social Interaction with Robots
    (Mensch und Computer 2022 - Workshopband, 2022) Häkkilä, Jonna; Väänänen, Kaisa; Löchtefeld, Markus; Ahtinen, Aino; Kaipainen, Kirsikka; Rehm, Matthias; Paananen, Siiri; Hannula, Petri; Colley, Ashley
    Robots are an emerging area in human-computer interaction. Although different types of robots have been around for automation and maintenance tasks, they are now emerging more and more towards use cases with social interaction, bringing new opportunities and challenges for the designers. Robots are being integrated into different work and service domains, including office work, healthcare and education. When designing interactive technologies, we need to take into account different user groups, use contexts, and even cultural sensitivities to achieve good user experiences. With robots, also tangible interaction, the form factor, and physical appearance are part of the interactive system design. This workshop addresses interaction with robots, focusing especially on the user experience and social interaction side of it. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners to present their work, or position papers, on the topic and to discuss about related case studies, applications, research methods, and experiences.