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Erschienen in: Cognitive Computation 4/2014

01.12.2014

Development of a Socially Believable Multi-Robot Solution from Town to Home

verfasst von: Filippo Cavallo, Raffaele Limosani, Alessandro Manzi, Manuele Bonaccorsi, Raffaele Esposito, Maurizio Di Rocco, Federico Pecora, Giancarlo Teti, Alessandro Saffiotti, Paolo Dario

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Abstract

Technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key factors for these technologies is that they have to be socially acceptable and believable to the end-users. This paper aimed to present some technological aspects that have been faced to develop the Robot-Era system, a multi-robotic system that is able to act in a socially believable way in the environments daily inhabited by humans, such as urban areas, buildings and homes. In particular, this paper focuses on two services—shopping delivery and garbage collection—showing preliminary results on experiments conducted with 35 elderly people. The analysis adopts an end-user-oriented perspective, considering some of the main attributes of acceptability: usability, attitude, anxiety, trust and quality of life.

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Metadaten
Titel
Development of a Socially Believable Multi-Robot Solution from Town to Home
verfasst von
Filippo Cavallo
Raffaele Limosani
Alessandro Manzi
Manuele Bonaccorsi
Raffaele Esposito
Maurizio Di Rocco
Federico Pecora
Giancarlo Teti
Alessandro Saffiotti
Paolo Dario
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2014
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Cognitive Computation / Ausgabe 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1866-9956
Elektronische ISSN: 1866-9964
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9290-z

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