Is someone watching me? - consideration of social facilitation effects in human-robot interaction experiments

This discussion paper considers the implications of the psychological phenomena of social facilitation effects for human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. Research studies in HRI have significantly increased over the past few years. Such studies investigate, for example, robot appearance and behaviou...

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Main Authors: Woods, S., Dautenhahn, K., Kaouri, C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
adult and child trials
Cognitive robotics
Computer science
design implications
Educational institutions
Hospitals
Human robot interaction
Manufacturing automation
Psychology
Robotics and automation
Security
Service robots
social facilitation effects
video footage
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Summary:This discussion paper considers the implications of the psychological phenomena of social facilitation effects for human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. Research studies in HRI have significantly increased over the past few years. Such studies investigate, for example, robot appearance and behaviour, and the responses of subjects to robots. However, the possible effects of the experimental context on results from human-robot interaction studies have attracted little attention. In this paper, we provide an overview of robot trials with children and adults, as part of the Cogniron project. Observations from video footage are reported, with particular consideration for the influence of the social context and social facilitation effects, including task complexity, evaluation context and type of presence on outcomes of human-robot interaction studies. Lessons learnt and future design implications for human-robot interaction studies are provided.
DOI:10.1109/CIRA.2005.1554254