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Understanding Reactions to Social Robots by Nick Anderson is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This paper studied how people interacted with a wheelchair robot named Rolland. Fifteen university students performed tasks with Rolland such as familiarizing it with locations and having it summarize what it learned. The paper found that people did not treat Rolland as either completely mindless or a full social actor, and different people perceived it differently. It focused on clear communication between participants and Rolland using the "Wizard of Oz" technique, where an operator remotely controlled Ro
- Author
- Nick Anderson
- Language
- EN