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Rachel Kirby, Frank Broz, Jodi Forlizzi, Marek Piotr Michalowski, Anne Mundell, Stephanie Rosenthal, Brennan Peter Sellner, Reid Simmons, Kevin Snipes, Alan Schultz, and Jue Wang
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), August, 2005, pp. 2199 - 2204.

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Abstract

Valerie the Roboceptionist is the most recent addition to Carnegie Mellon's Social Robots Project. A permanent installation in the entranceway to Newell-Simon Hall, the robot combines useful functionality---giving directions, looking up weather forecasts, etc.---with an interesting and compelling character. We are using Valerie to investigate human-robot social interaction, especially long-term human-robot "relationships." Over a nine-month period, we have found that many visitors continue to interact with the robot on a daily basis, but that few of the individual interactions last for more than 30 seconds. Our analysis of the data has indicated several design decisions that should facilitate more natural human-robot interaction.

Keywords

robotics, social robots, human-robot interaction

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center and Quality of Life Technology Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and Human-Robot Interaction Group

Associated Project(s): Social Robots and Roboceptionist

Number of pages: 6

Text Reference

Rachel Kirby, Frank Broz, Jodi Forlizzi, Marek Piotr Michalowski, Anne Mundell, Stephanie Rosenthal, Brennan Peter Sellner, Reid Simmons, Kevin Snipes, Alan Schultz, and Jue Wang, "Designing Robots for Long-Term Social Interaction," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), August, 2005, pp. 2199 - 2204.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Kirby_2005_5168,
   author = "Rachel Kirby and Frank Broz and Jodi Forlizzi and Marek Piotr Michalowski and Anne Mundell and Stephanie Rosenthal and Brennan Peter Sellner and Reid Simmons and Kevin Snipes and Alan Schultz and Jue Wang",
   title = "Designing Robots for Long-Term Social Interaction",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005)",
   pages = "2199 - 2204",
   publisher = "IEEE",
   month = "August",
   year = "2005",
}

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