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Let the User Decide! User Preferences Regarding Functions, Apps, and Interfaces of a Smart Home and a Service Robot

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Abstract

In an online survey, we studied user expectations and preferences for functions and apps in the context of a smart apartment. Furthermore, we explored which type of interface users would choose for an interaction with the smart apartment. Equally important, we investigated users’ acceptance of a service robot in the smart home. Results showed high levels of acceptance for both, the smart apartment and the robot, although the preferred interface for the apartment was context dependent. We discuss implications of the current survey and highlight key aspects to be taken into consideration when developing innovation technology for the home context.

Keywords

  • User experience
  • User preferences
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Smart home
  • User-centered design
  • Usability

J. Bernotat, F. Eyssel—Shared second authorship.

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This research has been conducted in the framework of the European Project CODEFROR (FP7 PIRSES-2013-612555) and was supported by the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology ‘CITEC’ (EXC 277) at Bielefeld University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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    Birte Schiffhauer, Jasmin Bernotat, Friederike Eyssel, Rebecca Bröhl & Jule Adriaans

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Schiffhauer, B., Bernotat, J., Eyssel, F., Bröhl, R., Adriaans, J. (2016). Let the User Decide! User Preferences Regarding Functions, Apps, and Interfaces of a Smart Home and a Service Robot. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_95

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