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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Making Eye Contact with a Robot - Exploring User Experience in Interacting with Pepper
Authors : Michal Podpora, Agnieszka Rozanska
Published in: Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In this paper authors describe a new approach to analysis of user experience in interacting with a humanoid robot Pepper. The designers and engineers of humanoid robots struggle to make the robots appear friendly and welcoming – not only to surpass the so-called Uncanny Valley, but also to make the human-machine interaction consistent and comfortable. The paper includes description of an experiment involving humanoid robot Pepper and human volunteers in a form of a short verbal interaction. The result of the experiment consists not only of a questionnaire, but also other parameters measured and calculated by a robot, inter alia the time of the eye contact. The authors evaluate the correlation between the time of eye contact and the overall opinion of volunteers.