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A Robot in the Library

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Culture and Computing (HCII 2020)

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If robots are to be beneficial and appealing within an international library setting, useful to patrons and cooperative with library personnel, then library culture becomes an important issue. Human-robot interaction designers need to consider technological factors, the library culture, as well as expectations from users to develop a solution that could withstand the fall of time and not atone when enthusiasm is lost. We reviewed the recent literature and performed qualitative analyses of our findings to explore the tasks that are proven to have been robotized in a library, and to investigate current cultural and technological barriers that would decrease acceptance rates of robots in a library. Search of Scopus, Web of Science, IEEEXplore, and LISTA databases was conducted complemented with Google searches. Articles with scientific content were included if they described the use of a robot in a library setting, were written in English, and were published within 2016–2018. We identified 1037 references and after title, abstract and full-text screening according to the eligibility criteria we included 18 records in our analysis. We summarize the main roles of library robots as: robots for navigation, book location and placement; robots as information desks; and robots in education. Barriers towards robotic acceptance was found to be: anxiety and fear among librarians of being replaced by robots; the lack of resources (time, money, space) for maintaining a robot and the cost of organizational restructuring; maintaining the enthusiasm around it over time; and the patrons’ need for human contact.

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    Evgenios Vlachos, Anne Faber Hansen & Jakob Povl Holck

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Vlachos, E., Hansen, A.F., Holck, J.P. (2020). A Robot in the Library. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50267-6_24

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