Eating with an artificial commensal companion

Autor:	Conor Patrick Gallagher, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Gijs Huisman, Maurizio Mancini, Merijn Bruijnes
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Protocol (science) Social robot Taste (sociology) media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Food choice Small sample Computational commensality Artificial companion Social group Perception Robot Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	ICMI Companion ICMI 2020 Companion-Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Popis:	Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot showing non-verbal social behaviours tries to influence a participants' food choice and food taste perception. We managed to conduct both a qualitative and quantitative study with 10 participants. Results show the favourable impression of the robot on participants. It also emerged that the robot may be able to influence the food choices using its non-verbal behaviors only. However, these results are not statistically significant, perhaps due to the small sample size. In the future, we plan to collect more data using the same experimental protocol, and to verify these preliminary results.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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