TY - GEN
T1 - Relationship between robot designs and preferences in kawaii attributes
AU - Laohakangvalvit, Tipporn
AU - Sripian, Peeraya
AU - Sugaya, Midori
AU - Ohkura, Michiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As robots have been increasingly involved in human lives I modern society, it is necessary to further develop the robots that give positive impression to human. Therefore, we pursued a collaborative project in which Japanese and American university students designed and developed kawaii robots. Before and after the collaborative work, preferences of kawaii attributes were also evaluated by a questionnaire. As a result, we obtained eight different robot pairs. In addition, we performed cluster analysis using the questionnaires on kawaii preferences and obtained clusters of participants before and after the collaborative work. Finally, we analyzed the relationship between robot designs and the clustering results. The cluster analysis shows that more than half of the participants did not change their kawaii preferences, while some of them did especially those who did not have preconceived images of kawaii robots. Therefore, we concluded that participants developed a deeper understanding about kawaii after collaborating on this project about the diversity of opinions people have about the concept of kawaii.
AB - As robots have been increasingly involved in human lives I modern society, it is necessary to further develop the robots that give positive impression to human. Therefore, we pursued a collaborative project in which Japanese and American university students designed and developed kawaii robots. Before and after the collaborative work, preferences of kawaii attributes were also evaluated by a questionnaire. As a result, we obtained eight different robot pairs. In addition, we performed cluster analysis using the questionnaires on kawaii preferences and obtained clusters of participants before and after the collaborative work. Finally, we analyzed the relationship between robot designs and the clustering results. The cluster analysis shows that more than half of the participants did not change their kawaii preferences, while some of them did especially those who did not have preconceived images of kawaii robots. Therefore, we concluded that participants developed a deeper understanding about kawaii after collaborating on this project about the diversity of opinions people have about the concept of kawaii.
KW - Kawaii
KW - Robot
KW - Virtual space
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-78465-2_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-78465-2_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85120705595
SN - 9783030784645
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 251
EP - 261
BT - Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Techniques and Novel Applications - Thematic Area, HCI 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Kurosu, Masaaki
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2021
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -