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Long-Term Value of Social Robots through the Eyes of Expert Users
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Socially-enabled digital technologies have attracted academic interest for decades, with recent commercial examples of Siri and Alexa, capturing public attention. However, despite ubiquitous visions of a robotic future, very few fully-fledged social robots are currently available to consumers. To improve their designs, studies of their long-term use are particularly valuable, but are currently unavailable. To address this gap, we report on interviews with four long-term users of Pepper - a social robot introduced in 2014. Our thematic analysis elicited insights across three kinds of value Pepper brought to its users: utilitarian functionality; the community that formed around Pepper; and a personal value of affection. We focus on two contributions those values bring to social robot design: social robots as social proxies, alleviating disabilities or acting akin to social media profiles; and robot nurturing as a design construct, going beyond purely utilitarian or hedonistic perspectives on robots.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dereshev, D., Kirk, D., Matsumura, K., & Maeda, T.
- Affiliations
- Northumbria University (GB)
- Ritsumeikan University (JP)
- Hannan University (JP)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-05-02
- Pages
- 1-12
- OpenAlex
- W2941395183
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 4.13
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › AI in Service Interactions
- Keywords
- social robots, Pepper robot, user value, online communities, disability services, social media accounts
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