TY - GEN
T1 - "Olá, my name is Ana"
T2 - 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2015
AU - Trovato, Gabriele
AU - Ramos, Josué G.
AU - Azevedo, Helio
AU - Moroni, Artemis
AU - Magossi, Silvia
AU - Ishii, Hiroyuki
AU - Simmons, Reid
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
N1 - Funding Information:
Research supported by the Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation program by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and by the Brazilian agencies Fapesp- 2013/26453-1 and CNPq 455193/2013-4. Study conducted as part of the Research Institute for Science and Engineering, and of the humanoid project at the Humanoid Robotics Institute Waseda University. The experiment was carried out in CTI Renato Archer, in Campinas, SP State, Brazil. We thank all the staff and the students who were involved for the support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/13
Y1 - 2015/10/13
N2 - In the near future, robots are expected to perform assistive tasks and do different kind of jobs. In particular, humanoid robots are possible candidates for being used as helpers in activities of daily living. One possible employment is working as a receptionist, providing useful indications to visitors in a public office. The design of how robots could look like is a matter of growing importance, as it is important to create a look that poses no uncanny valley effects on the human user and that is appropriate to potentially serve in different job areas in human society. In this paper we want to describe the study on anthropomorphism of a receptionist robot. We invited Brazilian people with different education levels to interact with two variations of a receptionist robot, different in physical appearance as well as in the sound of the voice. In one case, the appearance was a conversational agent made with computer graphics, in the other, a real humanoid robot. Results gathered from surveys and comments of the participants provide useful directions to design a receptionist robot and insights on the effect of digital divide on anthropomorphism.
AB - In the near future, robots are expected to perform assistive tasks and do different kind of jobs. In particular, humanoid robots are possible candidates for being used as helpers in activities of daily living. One possible employment is working as a receptionist, providing useful indications to visitors in a public office. The design of how robots could look like is a matter of growing importance, as it is important to create a look that poses no uncanny valley effects on the human user and that is appropriate to potentially serve in different job areas in human society. In this paper we want to describe the study on anthropomorphism of a receptionist robot. We invited Brazilian people with different education levels to interact with two variations of a receptionist robot, different in physical appearance as well as in the sound of the voice. In one case, the appearance was a conversational agent made with computer graphics, in the other, a real humanoid robot. Results gathered from surveys and comments of the participants provide useful directions to design a receptionist robot and insights on the effect of digital divide on anthropomorphism.
KW - anthropomorphism
KW - digital divide
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
KW - social robotics
KW - uncanny valley
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U2 - 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251435
DO - 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251435
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957668786
T3 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2015
SP - 66
EP - 71
BT - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2015
A2 - Saranli, Uluc
A2 - Kalkan, Sinan
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 July 2015 through 31 July 2015
ER -