Fink, JuliaBauwens, ValérieMubin, OmarKaplan, FrédéricDillenbourg, Pierre2011-11-282011-11-282011-11-28201110.1007/978-3-642-25504-5https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/72867The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explore people’s attitude and how it changed over time, we used a recurring questionnaire that was filled at three different times, integrated in 18 semi-structured qualitative interviews. Our findings suggest that being part of a specific household has an impact how each individual household member perceives the robot. We interpret that, even though individual experiences with the robot might differ from one other, a household shares a specific opinion about the robot. Moreover our findings also indicate that how people perceived Roomba did not change drastically over the two week period.human-robot interactionattitudes towards robotsdomestic service robotstext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper