HRI in the home: A Longitudinal Ethnographic Study with Roomba

• Presented at: 1st Symposium of the NCCR robotics, Zürich, Switzerland, June 16, 2011
• Publication date: 2011

Personal service robots, such as the iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner provide a promising opportunity to study human-robot interaction (HRI) in domestic environments. Still rather little is known about long-term impacts of robotic home appliances on people’s daily routines and attitudes and how they evolve over time. We investigate these aspects through a longitudinal ethnographic study with nine households, to which we gave a Roomba cleaning robot. During six months, data is gathered through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Keywords: human-robot interaction ; domestic service robots ; longitudinal field study ; social factors in robotics

Reference

• EPFL-POSTER-170416

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