International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
The interactive museum tour-guide robot
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Experiences with a mobile robotic guide for the elderly
Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Human-robot interaction: a survey
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Enjoyment intention to use and actual use of a conversational robot by elderly people
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
A semi-autonomous communication robot: a field trial at a train station
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Field trial for simultaneous teleoperation of mobile social robots
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Do people hold a humanoid robot morally accountable for the harm it causes?
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Children learning with a social robot
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisory control of multiple social robots for navigation
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Understanding suitable locations for waiting
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Destination unknown: walking side-by-side without knowing the goal
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
May i talk about other shops here?: modeling territory and invasion in front of shops
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
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Assistive robots can be perceived in two main ways: tools or partners. In past research, assistive robots that offer physical assistance for the elderly are often designed in the context of a tool metaphor. This paper investigates the effect of two design considerations for assistive robots in a partner metaphor: conversation and robot-type. The former factor is concerned with whether robots should converse with people even if the conversation is not germane for completing the task. The latter factor is concerned with whether people prefer a communication/function oriented design for assistive robots. To test these design considerations, we selected a shopping assistance situation where a robot carries a shopping basket for elderly people, which is one typical scenario used for assistive robots. A field experiment was conducted in a real supermarket in Japan where 24 elderly participants shopped with robots. The experimental results revealed that they prefer a conversational humanoid as a shopping assistant partner.