A methodological variation for acceptance evaluation of human-robot interaction in public places

Astrid Weiss, Regina Bernhaupt, Manfred Tscheligi, Dirk Wollherr, Kolja Kühnlenz, Martin Buss

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Abstract

Several variations of methodological approaches are used to study the social acceptance in Human-Robot Interaction. Due to the introduction of robots in the home, working practice and usage typically informing the design of new forms of technology are missing. Studying social acceptance in Human-Robot Interaction thus needs new methodological concepts. We propose a so called breaching experiment with additional ethnographic observation to close this gap. To investigate the methodological concept we have been conducting a field trial on a public place. We gathered feedback using questionnaires, in order to estimate whether this method can be beneficially to evaluate social acceptance. We could show that breaching experiments can be a useful method to investigate social acceptance in the field.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
Pages713-718
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN - Munich, Germany
Duration: 1 Aug 20083 Aug 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period1/08/083/08/08

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