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Personalization in HRI: a longitudinal field experiment

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John Antanitis,

Sarun SavetsilaAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 319 - 326

https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157804

Published: 05 March 2012 Publication History

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Creating and sustaining rapport between robots and people is critical for successful robotic services. As a first step towards this goal, we explored a personalization strategy with a snack delivery robot. We designed a social robotic snack delivery service, and, for half of the participants, personalized the service based on participants' service usage and interactions with the robot. The service ran for each participant for two months. We evaluated this strategy during a 4-month field experiment. The results show that, as compared with the social service alone, adding personalized service improved rapport, cooperation, and engagement with the robot during service encounters.

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Personalization in HRI: a longitudinal field experiment
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
      1. External interfaces for robotics

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HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2157689

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University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Brown University, USA

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