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Sociorobot Field Studies

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Sociorobot World

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Sociorobots were applied in numerous structured and real-life environments, in which their social interaction capabilities were tested and evaluated. In most studies the two principal ways of assessment followed are: direct observation where full sessions were monitored and video-taped, and questionnaires where participants answer appropriate ‘yes/no’ questions. This chapter summarizes the results of a number of field studies concerning the social performance, entertainment, companionship, and therapeutic competencies of ten sociorobots, namely: QRIO and NAO walking humanoids, COSMOBOT, BANDIT and PEARL wheeled mobile humanoids, KASPAR and ROBOTA fixed-place humanoids, and AIBO, PARO and PLEO zoomorphic robots.

I am not a robot, I have a heart and I bleed.

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Tzafestas, S. (2016). Sociorobot Field Studies. In: Sociorobot World. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21422-1_9

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