N. Caruana, Ryssa Moffat, Aitor Miguel-Blanco, Emily S. Cross
{"title":"Talk, Listen and Keep Me Company: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Children’s Perspectives Towards Robot Reading Companions","authors":"N. Caruana, Ryssa Moffat, Aitor Miguel-Blanco, Emily S. Cross","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563917","url":null,"abstract":"The potential for robots as an education support tool is being rapidly realized. However, much of the existing research with education robots has involved studies which arbitrarily select robots for interventions without a foundational understanding of the features that make them best suited to serve and meet the expectations and needs of users. This study explored how children’s perceptions, expectations and experiences were shaped by aesthetic and functional features during interactions with three different, commercially-available robot ‘reading buddies’. We collected a range of quantitative and qualitative measures of subjective experience before and after children read a book with a robot of their choice. Overall, our findings indicated that social robots do indeed show strong potential to promote reading engagement in children. This was supported by robot features that signaled the perception of robots as intelligent, literate and attentive. Such features included the robot’s ability to speak and react to the story plot in a way that was both emotionally- and temporally-appropriate, so as to engage but not distract children when reading. As such, controlling the timing of robot animations during reading activities – either using human-control methods or automation – presents a key challenge in realizing the effective deployment of robots to promote reading engagement in children, particularly for those who experience reading difficulty and associated reading anxiety.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114364711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Inamura, Shin'ichiro Eitoku, I. Toshima, Shinya Shimizu, A. Fukayama, S. Ozawa, Takao Nakamura
{"title":"Effect of repetitive motion intervention on self-avatar on the sense of self-individuality","authors":"T. Inamura, Shin'ichiro Eitoku, I. Toshima, Shinya Shimizu, A. Fukayama, S. Ozawa, Takao Nakamura","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3561916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561916","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the human Digital Twin has been discussed as new technology. When we discuss a world in which one’s self-avatar autonomously performs social activities in cyberspace, the questions arise whether or not the behavior of the avatars feels like one’s own, and whether or not we can approve of the self-avatars’ social activities on behalf of ourselves. We define such feeling as the sense of self-individuality. In this study, we focused on the situation in which self-avatars perform presentations on behalf of ourselves to investigate the effect of the modification experience on the presentation motions by self-avatars on the sense of self-individuality. We conducted VR-based experiments in which the motion modification intervention was performed on self-avatars over eight weeks by 24 experiment participants. As a result, we found that the sense of self-individuality was improved as the number of modifications and interventions increased. However, we found that the intensity of motion modification did not correlate with the improvement of the sense of self-individuality in this experiment condition. We also found that the sense of self-individuality was reduced when others intervened in the motion. From these results, we clarified that the experience of motion modification on self-avatars is significant when designing the behavior of avatars acting on behalf of ourselves in human Digital Twin. Further investigation is required to clarify the effect of the long-term intervention on behavior to distinguish between the mere exposure effect.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133344851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attributing Social Motivations to Changes in Agents’ Behavior and Appearance","authors":"Diogo Rato, Marta Couto, R. Prada","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3561925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561925","url":null,"abstract":"To be considered socially intelligent, agents must be able to adjust their behavior to different social contexts. However, those adjustments must be recognized and understood by other agents and humans, particularly to identify the social motivations that triggered such changes. In this work, we report on an experimental study that explores how external observers attribute social motivations to behavior and appearance changes that agents make to adapt to the context. Furthermore, we study how the presence of other agents in the context might impact the attribution of motivations to specific changes. Our results indicate that participants identify agents’ appearance changes as more socially and spatially motivated than behavioral changes. Additionally, agents’ awareness is rated higher when the agents adjust their physical characteristics compared to behavioral changes.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"442 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132313436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guy Laban, Arvid Kappas, V. Morrison, Emily S. Cross
{"title":"User experience of human-robot long-term interactions","authors":"Guy Laban, Arvid Kappas, V. Morrison, Emily S. Cross","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563927","url":null,"abstract":"Since interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one particular concern in this specific area of human-robot interaction (HRI) is the extent to which human users will experience the interactions positively over time, when the robot’s novelty is particularly salient. In the current paper, we investigated users’ experience in long-term HRIs; how users perceive the ongoing interactions and the robot’s ability to sustain it over time. Therefore, here we examine the effect of the repeated measures (10 testing sessions) and the discussion theme (Covid-19 related vs general) on the way participants experienced the interaction quality with a social robot and perceived the robot’s communication competency over time. We found that despite individual differences between the participants, over time participants found the interactions with Pepper to be of higher quality and that Pepper’s communication skills got better. Nevertheless, our results also stressed that the discussion theme has no meaningful nor significant effect on the way people perceive Pepper and the interaction.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122031720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ Views on Intelligent Agents as Assistive Tools for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations","authors":"Samira Rasouli, M. Ghafurian, K. Dautenhahn","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3561932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561932","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health problems are on the rise among university students. Many students face overwhelming stress and anxiety when participating in different activities and interacting with peers, which can affect their performance and mental well-being. However, many are unlikely to seek or receive help. Intelligent agents can offer the possibility of delivering health and mental well-being interventions with the aim of extending and complementing mental health interventions and increasing accessibility. To provide efficient interventions for students, it is imperative to identify design elements and functionalities that are most effective for engaging students. In this paper, we conducted an online survey with 85 participants (undergraduate and graduate students) to investigate preferences for using intelligent agents (e.g., conversational agents, social robots, etc.) to support their mental well-being, specifically to deal with feelings of stress and anxiety in social situations that are common in academic contexts. We asked students to complete a questionnaire in order to explore students’ experience of anxiety and their perceptions of different aspects of intelligent agents in the context of managing anxiety. The results provide insights on different social and technical capabilities as well as design elements that need to be considered when developing intelligent agents to help address stress and anxiety among university students.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130423293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Meeting: Volumetric Participatory theatre Play in Mixed Reality","authors":"Krzysztof Pietroszek, M. Rebol, Becky Lake","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563935","url":null,"abstract":"We present “The Meeting”, an immersive volumetric theatre experience in mixed reality. The user takes on the role of Vera, a woman reconnecting with a former partner, Robert. The actor playing Robert was volumetrically captured. The user can move around the “stage”, performing lines of dialogue using prompting or in-air text. Robert reacts to users’ utterances accordingly. “The Meeting” is one of the first interactive theatre plays that uses volumetric capture technology in an interactive manner and places the actors in an interactive mixed-reality space.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128537726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Simpson, Michael Richardson, Deborah Richards
{"title":"A Wizard or a Fool? Initial Assessment of a Wizard of Oz Agent Supporting Collaborative Virtual Environments","authors":"James Simpson, Michael Richardson, Deborah Richards","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563930","url":null,"abstract":"A popular technique for evaluating envisioned AI agents without committing significant engineering resources to implement such an agent is the Wizard of Oz (WoZ) methodology. Thus far, many of the WoZ studies concerned with the design of conversational agents have been standalone systems for individual participants to interact with. The aim of this work was to determine whether a WoZ conversational agent could be embedded within an existing team-based collaborative virtual environment. In doing so, we uncovered a number of potential challenges in designing such a system which may be valuable for those implementing such a system in the future.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127622813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Najjar, Harisha Prakash, I. Tchappi, Jean Etienne Ndamlabin Mboula, Yazan Mualla
{"title":"Towards a Smart Robot Model for Traffic Signal Management in Developing Countries","authors":"A. Najjar, Harisha Prakash, I. Tchappi, Jean Etienne Ndamlabin Mboula, Yazan Mualla","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563924","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion remains a major issue in the majority of developing countries. Intersections, in particular, are one of the major bottlenecks in road networks, exacerbating congestion. In these countries, policemen are regularly used to control traffic at intersections due to the social behaviors of drivers. However, policemen experience a lot of stress from long working hours and have the risk of accidents. Therefore, effective control of traffic at intersections taking into account the social behavior of drivers is an important strategy for improving traffic flow. To address this, in this paper to control the traffic at the intersection of a road network, a robot model for traffic signal management system using a web-based traffic simulator is presented.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126086418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction in Remote Peddling Using Avatar Robot by People with Disabilities","authors":"Takashi Kanetsuna, Kazuaki Takeuchi, Hiroaki Kato, Taichi Sono, Hirotaka Osawa, Kentaro Yoshifuji, Y. Yamazaki","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3563915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563915","url":null,"abstract":"Telework \"avatar work,\" in which people with disabilities can engage in physical work such as customer service, is being implemented in society. In order to enable avatar work in a variety of occupations, we propose a mobile sales system using a mobile frozen drink machine and an avatar robot “OriHime”, focusing on mobile customer service like peddling. The effect of the peddling by the system on the customers are examined based on the results of video annotation.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122970653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shreepriya Gonzalez-Jimenez, Danilo Gallo, R. Sosa, E. B. Sandoval, T. Colombino, M. Grasso
{"title":"A Decision Support Design Framework for Selecting a Robotic Interface","authors":"Shreepriya Gonzalez-Jimenez, Danilo Gallo, R. Sosa, E. B. Sandoval, T. Colombino, M. Grasso","doi":"10.1145/3527188.3561913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561913","url":null,"abstract":"The design and development of robots involve the essential step of selecting and testing robotic interfaces. This interface selection requires careful consideration as the robot’s physical embodiment influences and adds to the traditional interfaces’ complexities. Our paper presents a decision support design framework for the a priori selection of robotic interface that was inductively formulated from our case study of designing a robot to collaborate with employees with cognitive disabilities. Our main contribution is to provide a novel framework that outlines the interface requirements according to user, robot, tasks and environment and facilitates a structured comparison of interfaces against those requirements. The framework is assessed for its potential applicability and usefulness through a qualitative study with HRI experts. The framework is appreciated as a systematic tool that enables documentation and discussion, and identified issues inform the framework’s iteration. The themes of ownership of this process in interdisciplinary teams and its role in iteratively designing interfaces are discussed.","PeriodicalId":179256,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction","volume":"3 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114126453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}