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What Makes Robots Social?: A User’s Perspective on Characteristics for Social Human-Robot Interaction

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Abstract

A common description of a social robot is for it to be capable of communicating in a humanlike manner. However, a description of what communicating in a ‘humanlike manner’ means often remains unspecified. This paper provides a set of social behaviors and certain specific features social robots should possess based on user’s experience in a longitudinal home study, discusses whether robots can actually be social, and presents some recommendations to build better social robots.

Keywords

  • Design guidelines
  • Sociability
  • Social intelligence
  • Social robots

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  1. Deptartment of Communication Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    M. M. A. de Graaf & J. A. G. M. van Dijk

  2. Department of Technology, Heath & Care, Saxion University of Applied Science, Enschede, The Netherlands

    S. Ben Allouch

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  1. Robotics and Computer Vision Lab, ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France

    Adriana Tapus

  2. Inst für Informatik, Human-Ctr Multimedi, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany

    Prof. Elisabeth André

  3. LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France

    Jean-Claude Martin

  4. Robotics and Computer Vision Lab, ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France

    François Ferland

  5. LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France

    Mehdi Ammi

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de Graaf, M.M.A., Ben Allouch, S., van Dijk, J.A.G.M. (2015). What Makes Robots Social?: A User’s Perspective on Characteristics for Social Human-Robot Interaction. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_19

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