Subjective evaluation of seal robot in Brunei

Author

Shibata, Takanori ; Wada, Kazuyoshi ; Tanie, Kazuo

Author_Institution

Intelligent Syst. Inst., AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

140

Abstract

This work describes the result of international subjective evaluation of seal robot in terms of human-robot interaction. The seal robot named Paro was displayed at the exhibition held at the Exhibition Center in Brunei from February 28th to March 3^rd, 2004. 98 visitors evaluated the robot by answering questionnaires. The result showed that the robot was highly evaluated, and were very similar in those of Japan that were obtained in previous study. In addition, important factors such as "impression like real animals", "favorable impression by contacting" and "favorable impression by appearance" that become key points in robot evaluation were extracted from the results of the principal component analysis.

Keywords

man-machine systems; principal component analysis; robots; Brunei; Paro robot; exhibition center; human-robot interaction; mental commit robot; principal component analysis; questionnaires; robot evaluation; seal robot; subjective evaluation; Animals; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Medical treatment; Psychology; Robot sensing systems; Seals; Statistical analysis; Tactile sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2004. ROMAN 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2004.1374744

Filename

1374744