Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof)
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 sensi...
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| author | Herath, D. Kroos, Christian Stevens, C. Burnham, D. |
| author2 | Hideaki Kuzuoka |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-145592023-02-07T08:01:25Z Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) Herath, D. Kroos, Christian Stevens, C. Burnham, D. Hideaki Kuzuoka Vanessa Evers Michita Imai Jodi Forlizzi Social - Robots Attachment Adoption Robot Design Human-Robot Interaction 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. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14559 Institute of Electr ical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. restricted |
| spellingShingle | Social - Robots Attachment Adoption Robot Design Human-Robot Interaction Herath, D. Kroos, Christian Stevens, C. Burnham, D. Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title | Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title_full | Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title_fullStr | Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title_short | Adopt-a-Robot: A Story of Attachment (Or the Lack Thereof) |
| title_sort | adopt-a-robot: a story of attachment (or the lack thereof) |
| topic | Social - Robots Attachment Adoption Robot Design Human-Robot Interaction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14559 |