Hello Pepper, may I tickle you?: Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall

Iina Aaltonen; Anne Arvola; Päivi Heikkilä; Hanna Lammi

doi:10.1145/3029798.3038362

Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall

Iina Aaltonen, Anne Arvola, Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi

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Abstract

We took a social robot Pepper to a shopping mall for one day to see what kind of initial responses it draws from people. We observed that the robot was quickly surrounded by children when there were others-especially adults-interacting with it. The children seemed to especially enjoy the activity-related applications, such as tickling the robot or giving a high-five. Adults were interested in hearing about useful applications and tended to talk to the robot as if it were any machine capable of speech recognition. These observations will help to design more interactive and entertaining applications for shopping mall robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '17
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Editors	Bilge Mutlu, Manfred Tscheligi
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery ACM
Pages	53-54
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4885-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038362
Publication status	Published - 6 Mar 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Vienna, Austria Duration: 6 Mar 2017 → 9 Mar 2017

Conference

Conference	2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Abbreviated title	HRI 2017
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	6/03/17 → 9/03/17

Keywords

adults
children
entertainment
human-robot interaction
observations
pepper
shopping mall
social robot

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10.1145/3029798.3038362

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Aaltonen, I., Arvola, A., Heikkilä, P., & Lammi, H. (2017). Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall. In B. Mutlu, & M. Tscheligi (Eds.), HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 53-54). Association for Computing Machinery ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038362

Aaltonen, Iina ; Arvola, Anne ; Heikkilä, Päivi et al. / Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall. HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. editor / Bilge Mutlu ; Manfred Tscheligi. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, 2017. pp. 53-54

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Aaltonen, I, Arvola, A, Heikkilä, P & Lammi, H 2017, Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall. in B Mutlu & M Tscheligi (eds), HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, pp. 53-54, 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Vienna, Austria, 6/03/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038362

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HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ed. / Bilge Mutlu; Manfred Tscheligi. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, 2017. p. 53-54.

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Aaltonen I, Arvola A, Heikkilä P , Lammi H. Hello Pepper, may I tickle you? Children's and adults' responses to an entertainment robot at a shopping mall. In Mutlu B, Tscheligi M, editors, HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery ACM. 2017. p. 53-54 doi: 10.1145/3029798.3038362