How Do People Respond to Being Touched by a Robot?
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How might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil, or would they take it in stride? In an initial study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found people generally had a positive response toward being touched by a robotic nurse, but that their perception of the robot's intent made a significant difference.
Charlie Kemp, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and Tiffany Chen, doctoral student at Tech, talk about their investigation that looks at how being attended by a robot can affect people's comfort level.
The research took place in Kemp's Healthcare Robotics Lab with the robot known as Cody. Cody is now sporting new Xbox 360 Kinect headgear, gear that he didn't have in the initial study.
For the written story see
http://digitallounge.gatech.edu/healthandeducation/index.html?nid=64852
Video: Rob Felt, David Terraso/Georgia Tech
Photos: Rob Felt/Georgia Tech
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lol 1:06 robots like, oh yeah!.
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Me like Tiffany Chen, she look good
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awkward to be taken care of a robotic nurse! Taking care of is not purely technicality of the nursing skills..big part of caring is emotion!
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@veganfemale Na people need to earn their living.
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a lot of how people perceive the robot is determined by the way it looks. A less intimidating form would produce more comfort.
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Hmm....let's do a study on how people feel when a robot touches them. To make them most at ease, let's not give it a face, let's give it gigantic metal arms and paddles for hands.... just so it looks as human as possible.
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Lolz! teh head is kinect!
TRIPLEG209 10 months ago 6
Is that a Kinect?
Evansmustard 11 months ago 3