Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Lessons Learned from Social Psychology
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2008-07-16T14:59:46Z
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Social psychology offers a perspective on the
acceptance and adoption of technology that is not often
considered in technical circles. In this paper, we discuss several adoption-of-technology models in respect
to the acceptance of domestic robots. We raise several
key points that we feel will be pivotal to how domestic
users respond to robots, and provide a set of heuristics
that roboticists and designers of robotic interfaces can
use to consider and analyze their designs. Ultimately,
understanding both how users respond to robots and
the reasons behind their responses will enable designers to creating domestic robots that are accepted into
homes.
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Robots, Social Psychology