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Domestic Robots for Individuals Living With Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design

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Rahatul Amin Ananto,

Denise Y. Geiskkovitch,

James E. YoungAuthors Info & Claims

HAI '20: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

Pages 263 - 265

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418749

Published: 10 November 2020 Publication History

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A growing area of human-robot interaction explores how robots, for example as companions, can be used to help people manage loneliness. However, we do not yet have research results indicating if people are ready to accept companion robots in their daily lives, and thus if companion robots can actually be successful broadly in society. We present a novel long-term in-home interaction study design that will explore how people accept these robots in their homes and how the robots impact loneliness.

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A growing area of human-robot interaction explores how robots, for example as companions, can be used to help people manage loneliness. However, we do not yet have research results indicating if people are ready to accept companion robots in their daily lives, and thus if companion robots can actually be successful broadly in society. We present a novel long-term in-home interaction study design that will explore how people accept these robots in their homes and how the robots impact loneliness.

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Passler Bates DDudek SBerzuk JGonzález AYoung J(2024)SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With LonelinessProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660702(2972-2986)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660702
Ananto RYoung JBethel CPaiva ABroadbent EFeil-Seifer DSzafir D(2021)We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on LonelinessCompanion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3434074.3447213(457-462)Online publication date: 8-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434074.3447213

Index Terms

Domestic Robots for Individuals Living With Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies

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HAI '20: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

November 2020

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DOI:10.1145/3406499

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Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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The University of Tokyo, Japan
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University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
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Passler Bates DDudek SBerzuk JGonzález AYoung J(2024)SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With LonelinessProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3660702(2972-2986)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660702
Ananto RYoung JBethel CPaiva ABroadbent EFeil-Seifer DSzafir D(2021)We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on LonelinessCompanion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3434074.3447213(457-462)Online publication date: 8-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3434074.3447213

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