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Hello Pepper, May I Tickle You?: Children's and Adults' Responses to an Entertainment Robot at a Shopping Mall

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Iina Aaltonen,

Anne Arvola,

Päivi Heikkilä,

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HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038362

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We took a social robot Pepper to a shopping mall for one day to see what kind of initial responses it draws from people. We observed that the robot was quickly surrounded by children when there were others-especially adults-interacting with it. The children seemed to especially enjoy the activity-related applications, such as tickling the robot or giving a high-five. Adults were interested in hearing about useful applications and tended to talk to the robot as if it were any machine capable of speech recognition. These observations will help to design more interactive and entertaining applications for shopping mall robots.

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Hello Pepper, May I Tickle You?: Children's and Adults' Responses to an Entertainment Robot at a Shopping Mall
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2017

462 pages

ISBN:9781450348850

DOI:10.1145/3029798

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Bilge Mutlu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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University of Salzburg, Austria
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Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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