Abstract
Establishing a positive relationship between a user and a system is considered important or even necessary in applications of social robots or other computational artifacts which require long-term engagement. We discuss several experiments investigating the effects of specific relational verbal behaviors within the broader context of developing a social robot for long-term support of self-management improvement in children with Type 1 diabetes. Our results show that displaying familiarity with a user as well as eliciting the user’s selfdisclosure in off-activity talk contribute to the user’s perception of the social robot as a friend. We also observed increased commitment to interaction success related to familiarity display and increased interest in further interactions related to off-activity talk.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 380-389 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 9388 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Child-robot interaction
- Continuity behaviors
- Familiarity display
- Human-robot interaction
- Long-term interaction
- Off-activity talk
- Perception of robot as friend
- Personalization
- Self-disclosure
- Social robot
- Verbal behavior
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)