Not Your Cup of Tea? How Interacting With a Robot Can Increase Perceived Self-efficacy in HRI and Evaluation

The goal of this work is to explore the influence of do-it-yourself customization of a robot on technologically experienced students and unexperienced elderly users' perceived self-efficacy in HRI, uncertainty, and evaluation of the robot and interaction. We introduce the Self-Efficacy in HRI S...

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Published in:2017 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI pp. 483 - 492
Main Authors: Rosenthal-von der Pütten, Astrid Marieke, Bock, Nikolai, Brockmann, Katharina
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 06.03.2017
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Assistive technology
elderly users
experimental study
Human computer interaction
Human-centered computing
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Empirical studies in HCI
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > HCI design and evaluation methods > Laboratory experiments
Human-robot interaction
Robot sensing systems
robot teaching
self-efficacy
Senior citizens
Social and professional topics
Social and professional topics > User characteristics > Age > Seniors
technology acceptance: do-it-yourself
Uncertainty
elderly users
human-robot interaction
do-it-yourself
self-efficacy
experimental study
robot teaching
technology acceptance
ISBN:9781450343367, 1450343368
ISSN:2167-2148
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Summary:The goal of this work is to explore the influence of do-it-yourself customization of a robot on technologically experienced students and unexperienced elderly users' perceived self-efficacy in HRI, uncertainty, and evaluation of the robot and interaction. We introduce the Self-Efficacy in HRI Scale and present two experimental studies. In study 1 (students, n=60) we found that any interaction with the robot increased self-efficacy, regardless of whether this interaction involves customization or not. Moreover, individual increases in self-efficacy predict more positive evaluations. In a second study with elderly users (n=60) we could not replicate the general positive effect of the interaction on self-efficacy. Again, we did not find the hypothesized stronger effect of customization on self-efficacy, nor did we find that relationship between self-efficacy increase and evaluation. We discuss limitations of the setting and for questionnaire design for elderly participants.
ISBN:9781450343367
1450343368
ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1145/2909824.3020251