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Essay / Human Perception of Domestic Robots - 1035
Robots are now used in domestic environments to perform a range of useful tasks or functions. Thus, it is necessary that they perform these tasks or functions in a manner that is socially acceptable, comfortable and effective for the people with whom they share the environment and with whom they interact. In order to have effective human-robot interaction, the physical embodiment and behavior of domestic robots have played an important role. Previous studies have proven that the physical appearance of home robots impacts people's expectations of home robots. In general, their expectations were heavily influenced by science fiction films and media showing the destruction caused by robots. So, people wanted robots to be non-autonomous, intelligent, and fully controlled by humans. For example, people viewed large humanoid robots as more responsible, while small humanoid robots were viewed as more childish and unable to perform tasks effectively. Additionally, people belonging to different age groups, for example young people or old people, had opposite views in their perception. of domestic robot. Young people were more inspiring and had a strong attraction to robots while older people feared their autonomy and dysfunctions. Thus, young people prefer to have humanoid robots as companions while older people want them to look like machines and be able to perform their tasks perfectly. So people have high expectations from domestic robots. They expect robots to help or accompany them in their busy lives, but they need to be under their full control and intelligent because they don't want to get into trouble. ...... middle of paper ......gn: Why we love (or hate) everyday things. Basic Books, New York (2004)[19] Weiss, A., et al. (2009). “I like this dog” – Children’s emotional attachment to the AIBO robot dog. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2009. 1(3): p. 243-248.[20] DS Syrdal, ML Walters, KL Koay, SN Woods and K. Dautenhahn, “Does it look good? Appearance Preferences and Personality Inferences of Robots at Zero Acquaintance', AAAI – Spring Symposium 2007, Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assisted Robotics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 86-92, (2007).[21] Michael L. Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn, and René te Boekhorst (2009): Preferences and perceptions of robot appearance and embodiment in human-robot interaction trials. In: Artificial Intelligence and Behavior Simulation Convention (AISB'09). Edinburgh, Scotland