Sharing a life with Harvey: Exploring the acceptance of and relationship-building with a social robot
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Highlights：
• We installed a social robot in elderly people’s homes for three 10-day visits.
• Content analysis of interviews provided in-depth evaluations of user experiences.
• Elderly people are willing to engage in social interactions with robots.
• Familiarity with robots raise evaluations on usefulness, intelligence and sociability.
• Hedonic factors seem to be most important for long-term acceptance of social robots.
摘要
•We installed a social robot in elderly people’s homes for three 10-day visits.•Content analysis of interviews provided in-depth evaluations of user experiences.•Elderly people are willing to engage in social interactions with robots.•Familiarity with robots raise evaluations on usefulness, intelligence and sociability.•Hedonic factors seem to be most important for long-term acceptance of social robots.
论文关键词：Domestic environment,Human-robot interaction,Long-term study,Social robots,User acceptance
论文评审过程：Available online 16 November 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.030
