Title
Sharing a life with Harvey: Exploring the acceptance of and relationship-building with a social robot.
Abstract
•We installed a social robot in elderly people’s homes for three 10-day visits.•Content analysis of interviews provided in-depth evaluations of user experiences.•Elderly people are willing to engage in social interactions with robots.•Familiarity with robots raise evaluations on usefulness, intelligence and sociability.•Hedonic factors seem to be most important for long-term acceptance of social robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.030
Computers in Human Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
Domestic environment,Human-robot interaction,Long-term study,Social robots,User acceptance
Media Lab Europe's social robots,Social psychology,Social robot,Content analysis,Psychology,Life expectancy,Population ageing,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Health promotion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
C
0747-5632
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.67
27
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. de Graaf1796.53
Somaya Ben Allouch216616.37
Tineke Klamer3140.67