| Title | What can I do for you? Appearance and Application of Robots. |
| Publication Type | Workshop Paper |
| Authors | Lohse, M., F. Hegel, A. Swadzba, K. J. Rohlfing, S. Wachsmuth, and B. Wrede |
| Workshop Title | Workshop on The Reign of Catz and Dogz? The role of virtual creatures in a computerised society. |
| Name of Host Conference | Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB’07) |
| Place Published | Newcastle upon Tyne, GB |
| Year of Publication | 2007 |
| Pagination | 121--126 |
| Date Published | 02/04/2007 |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Abstract | In recent years industrial robots have been successfully established
because they fulfil meaningful tasks in production. In contrast the
question of applications for social robots is still open. For quite
some time they have only been used in research or at best as simple
toys by real users in everyday life situations. However, we suggest
that there are still unknown application fields that are suitable
for existing robots. Therefore, our approach is to show short movies
and descriptions of real robots to participants and ask whether there
are any specific tasks these robots could perform in the naive users'
everyday life. The systems' appearance and abilities strongly influence
the user's expectations, that's why we suppose that we will find
strong differences between zoomorphic robots like AIBO and iCat and
other robots like BIRON (functional design) and BARTHOC (humanoid).
We have conducted an online study with more than 100 participants
to test this hypothesis. |
| Type of Work | inproceedings |
| URL | files/papers/Lohse2007-AAR.pdf |
| Type of Presentation | Talk |
| Presenter | Manja Lohse |
| Citation Key | Lohse2007-AAR |
