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An Interactive Game with a Robot: Peoples' Perceptions of Robot Faces and a Gesture-Based User Interface

Authors:
Michael Walters
Samuel Marcos
Dag Sverre Syrdal
Kerstin Dautenhahn

Keywords: HRI, Human-Robot-Interaction, Gesture-Based User Interface, Interactive Game Robot

Abstract:
This paper presents findings from a HRI user-study which investigated participants' perceptions and experiences playing a simple version of the classic game, stone-paper-scissors with a humanoid robot. Participants experienced the robot displaying one of four different robot faces and interacted with the robots using a gesture-based interface. Findings from the study indicated that the effects of the different robot faces were inter-related with participants gender and ratings for overall enjoyment of the game experience. The usability and effectiveness of the gesture-based interface were overall rated positively by participants, though the use of a separate display for the game interface seems to have distracted participants attention from the robot's face.

Pages: 123 to 128

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013