Designing Sociable Robots
Interactive robots as social partners and peer tutors for children: a field trial
Human-Computer Interaction
A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
On-line behaviour classification and adaptation to human-robot interaction styles
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
The RUBI project: a progress report
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Housewives or technophiles?: understanding domestic robot owners
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Robots in the wild: understanding long-term use
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
How do you play with a robotic toy animal?: a long-term study of Pleo
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
The implementation of care-receiving robot at an english learning school for children
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
Linking children by telerobotics: experimental field and the first target
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
Assessing short-term human-robot interaction in public space
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
Child-robot interaction in the wild: advice to the aspiring experimenter
ICMI '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces
Robot dancing: adapting robot dance to human preferences
ICONIP'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part V
Kindergarten social assistive robot: First meeting and ethical issues
Computers in Human Behavior
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The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored methodological challenges to robotic researchers. Is it possible, for example, to perform useful experiments in the uncontrolled conditions of everyday life environments? How long do these studies need to be to provide reliable results? What evaluations methods can be used?In this paper we present preliminary results on a study designed to evaluate an algorithm for social robots in relatively uncontrolled, daily life conditions. The study was conducted as part of the RUBI project, whose goal is to design and develop social robots by immersion in the environment in which the robots are supposed to operate. First we found that in spite of the relative chaotic conditions and lack of control existing in the daily activities of a child-care center, it is possible to perform experiments in a relatively short period of time and with reliable results. We found that continuous audience response methods borrowed from marketing research provided good inter-observer reliabilities, in the order of 70%, and temporal resolution (the cut-off frequency is in the order of 1 cycle per minute) at low cost (evaluation is performed continuously in real time). We also experimented with objective behavioral descriptions, like tracking children's movement across a room. These approaches complemented each other and provided a useful picture of the temporal dynamics of the child-robot interaction, allowing us to gather baseline data for evaluating future systems. Finally, we also touch the ongoing study of behavior analysis through 3 months long-term child-robot interaction.