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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Trovato, Gabriele
• Paredes, Renato
• Balvin, Javier
• Cuellar, Francisco
• Thomsen, Nicolai Baek
• Bech, Soren
• Tan, Zheng-Hua

Titel

The Sound or Silence: Investigating the Influence of Robot Noise on Proxemics

Ist Teil von

• 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018, p.713-718

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the design of robots that have to share spaces with humans, design plays an important role in the acceptance, and sound is one further aspect that should not be neglected, in order to facilitate interaction and minimise repulsion. Following a previous research in which an uncomfortable noise from a robot was identified, we present an interaction study in which the same noise was tested in order to measure the effect on proxemics, as opposed to a silent condition and to a different version of the sound, masked with ambient music. The results obtained with the participation of 60 subjects show the effectiveness of the mask in avoiding the negative effect of the noise.