عنوان

An investigation of service degradation in long-term human-robot interaction with a particular reference to recharge behaviour

شماره

TLets788827

عنوان اصلي

An investigation of service degradation in long-term human-robot interaction with a particular reference to recharge behaviour

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Deshmukh, Amol Arun

نام ساير پديدآوران

Aylett, Ruth ; Brown, Keith

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Heriot-Watt University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Heriot-Watt University

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

Autonomous long-term operation of social robots has always been a challenge in Human robot-interaction. Social mobile robots acting as companions or assistants will need to operate over a long-term period of time (days, weeks or even months) to perform daily tasks and interact with users. Therefore they should be capable of operating with a great degree of autonomy and will require sustainable social intelligence. Social robots are fallible and have their own limitations with the service they provide. One of the most important limitations of mobile robots is power constraints and the need for frequent recharging. Social mobile robots generally draw power from batteries carried on the robot in order to operate various sensors, actuators and perform tasks. However, batteries have a limited power life and take a long time to recharge via a power source. While the recharge behaviour is active, which may impede human-robot interaction and lead to service degradation. This thesis raises some important issues related to recharge behaviour of social mobile robots which appear to have been overlooked in social robotics research. This work investigated service degradation in long-term interaction due to recharge behaviour of autonomous social mobile robots and proposes an approach to manage service degradation due to recharge. First we performed a long-term study to investigate the service degradation caused by the recharging behaviour of a social robot. Second we conducted a more focused social study which helped to understand user's attitudes towards a mobile robot with respect to recharge activity. We explored a social strategy by modifying the robot's verbal behaviour to manage service degradation during recharge. The results obtained from our social study indicates the use of verbal strategies (transparency, apology, politeness) made the robot more acceptable to the users during recharge. We believe that social mobile robots should behave in a socially intelligent manner while managing service degradation. We also provide some recommendations for social mobile robots to manage their recharge behaviour in this thesis.

موضوع مستند نشده

companion robots

موضوع مستند نشده

Long-term interaction

موضوع مستند نشده

recharge behaviour

موضوع مستند نشده

service degradation

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Deshmukh, Amol Arun

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Brown, Keith

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Aylett, Ruth

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Heriot-Watt University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y