Title
Using Theatre to Study Interaction with Care Robots.
Abstract
This paper describes an innovative approach for studying interaction between humans and care robots. Using live theatrical performance, we developed a play that depicts a plausible, future care scenario between a human and a socially assistive robot. We used an expanded version of the Godspeed Questionnaire to measure the audiences’ reactions to the robot, the observed interactions between the human and the robot, and their overall reactions to the performance. We present our results and propose a methodology and guidelines for using applied theatre as a platform to study human robot interaction (HRI). Unlike other HRI studies, the subject of our research is not the user who interacts with the robot but rather the audiences observing the HRI. We consider the technical and artistic challenges of designing and staging a believable care scenario that could potentially influence the perception and acceptance of care robots. This study marks a first step towards designing a robust framework for combining applied theatre with HRI research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s12369-016-0370-y
I. J. Social Robotics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Care robots, Entertainment robots, Assistive robots, Applied theatre, Social Human-Robot Interaction
Social robot,Simulation,Psychology,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Multimedia,Perception,Human–robot interaction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
4
1875-4805
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.58
16
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elizabeth Jochum1123.13
Evgenios Vlachos2133.45
Anja Christoffersen360.58
Sally Grindsted Nielsen460.58
I. A. Hameed5299.45
Zheng-Hua Tan645760.32