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Recommendation Effects of a Social Robot for Advertisement-Use Context in a Shopping Mall

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We developed a coupon-giving robot system for a shopping mall to explore possible applications using social robots in daily environments, particularly for advertising. The system provided information through conversations with people. The robot was semi-autonomous, which means that it was partly controlled by a human operator, to cope with the difficulty of speech recognition in real environments. We conducted two field trials to investigate two kinds of effectiveness related to recommendations: the presence of a robot and different conversation schemas. Although a robot can strongly attract people with its presence and interaction, it remains unknown whether it can increase the effects of advertisements in real environments. Our field trial results show that a small robot increased the number of people who printed coupons more than a normal-sized robot. The number of people who printed coupons also increased when the robot asked visitors to freely select from all coupon candidates or to listen to its recommendation.

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We thank the staff of the Asia and Pacific Trade Center Co., Ltd. for their kind cooperation. This research was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.

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  1. ATR-IRC, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

    Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Yoshifumi Nakagawa, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro & Norihiro Hagita

  2. Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan

    Toshio Sakamoto, Toshimitsu Terakubo & Hiroshi Ishiguro

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Shiomi, M., Shinozawa, K., Nakagawa, Y. et al. Recommendation Effects of a Social Robot for Advertisement-Use Context in a Shopping Mall. Int J of Soc Robotics 5, 251–262 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-013-0180-4

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