TY - GEN
T1 - Impacting the perception of socially assistive robots- evaluating the effect of visual qualities among children
AU - Liberman-Pincu, E.
AU - Oron-Gilad, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This research was supported in part by the Helmsley Charitable Trust through the Agricultural, Biological, and Cognitive Robotics Initiative and by the Marcus Endowment Fund both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science Fund, grant agreement number: 81059, and by the Research supported by ABC Foundation. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev through the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Initiative, and by the George Shrut Chair in human performance management. Ela Liberman-Pincu is with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel (972-8-6461434; e-mail: elapin@post.bgu.ac.il). Tal Oron-Gilad is with the Industrial Engineering Department with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel (972-8-6461434; e-mail: elapin@post.bgu.ac.il).
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© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/8/8
Y1 - 2021/8/8
N2 - A socially assistive robot (SAR) can support children in developmental and well-being aspects. Children's tendency to anthropomorphize and pretend play contributes to their ability to engage with robots and establish relationships. The robot's visual aesthetics influences users' initial judgments and is essential for creating first impressions, trust, and desirability. SAR's visual appearance may lead the child to desired assumptions about its capabilities. Beyond aesthetics per se, designers must address the robots' visual qualities necessary to affect users' perceptions and expectations. This paper proposes and demonstrates a methodology for evaluating children's perception of visual qualities in SARs, aiming to pave the way for new design tools to support robotic designers and developers. Design tools can improve the SAR design process by forming means for designers and roboticists to consider and create a user experience for specific contexts, tasks, or use-case scenarios relevant to particular SARs. By this, to form the design of more use-oriented, acceptable, trustworthy, and desirable robots.
AB - A socially assistive robot (SAR) can support children in developmental and well-being aspects. Children's tendency to anthropomorphize and pretend play contributes to their ability to engage with robots and establish relationships. The robot's visual aesthetics influences users' initial judgments and is essential for creating first impressions, trust, and desirability. SAR's visual appearance may lead the child to desired assumptions about its capabilities. Beyond aesthetics per se, designers must address the robots' visual qualities necessary to affect users' perceptions and expectations. This paper proposes and demonstrates a methodology for evaluating children's perception of visual qualities in SARs, aiming to pave the way for new design tools to support robotic designers and developers. Design tools can improve the SAR design process by forming means for designers and roboticists to consider and create a user experience for specific contexts, tasks, or use-case scenarios relevant to particular SARs. By this, to form the design of more use-oriented, acceptable, trustworthy, and desirable robots.
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U2 - 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515458
DO - 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515458
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115097303
T3 - 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2021
SP - 612
EP - 618
BT - 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2021
Y2 - 8 August 2021 through 12 August 2021
ER -