Behavioural and Social Influences on Human-Robot Proxemics
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2018-05-09
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en
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Knowledge on how a robot's behaviour will in
uence human-robot proxemics
can help to optimize human-robot interaction. A successful interaction is
a requirement for the usefulness of social robots. This project investigated
whether di erent aspects of social robot behaviour had an in
uence on human
proxemics and perception of the robot. Several user studies were performed
to investigate whether a di erence in approach speed, experiencing how the
robot makes di erent types of mistakes or seeing di erent social behaviours
in
uenced proxemics. Results show that, even though there were no di er-
ences for approach distances within the three aspects, perceiving the robot
make a mistake and showing social behaviour have an in
uence on proxemics
and perception. Order of approach (human rst or robot rst) signi cantly
in
uences proxemics and perception as well. These results indicate that the
initial acquaintance between a robot and its user is essential for successful
human-robot interaction.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen