Adopt-a-robot: A story of attachment (Or the lack thereof)

Damith HERATH; Christian Kroos; Catherine Stevens; Denis Burnham

doi:10.1109/HRI.2013.6483538

Adopt-a-robot: A story of attachment (Or the lack thereof)

Damith HERATH, Christian Kroos, Catherine Stevens, Denis Burnham

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Abstract

Robots have diffidently started to invade human spaces, but are still limited to very rudimentary forms such as robot vacuum cleaners and various entertainment platforms. Dramatic changes with respect to the number of robots in homes and offices, however, can be foreseen for the near future as sensing, computing and associated technologies mature. Currently, it is not known how we humans will treat machine companions when they will be with us over prolonged periods of time and share our personal space. In this exploratory study we investigated whether participants would form a bond with a small, basic research robot in an adoption scenario whereby the robot's initial interaction abilities were upgraded in two steps. We were particularly interested in investigating whether any increases in attachment would be related to the 2 steps of progressively heightened technical sophistication of the robot over a prolonged (six month) period of time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Place of Publication	USA
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	135-136
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781467330558
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2013.6483538
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2013 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 3 Mar 2013 → 6 Mar 2013

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Conference	8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2013
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	3/03/13 → 6/03/13

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HERATH, D, Kroos, C, Stevens, C & Burnham, D 2013, Adopt-a-robot: A story of attachment (Or the lack thereof). in HRI 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction., 6483538, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA, pp. 135-136, 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2013, Tokyo, Japan, 3/03/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2013.6483538

Adopt-a-robot: A story of attachment (Or the lack thereof). / HERATH, Damith; Kroos, Christian; Stevens, Catherine et al.
HRI 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013. p. 135-136 6483538.

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