Main Study Clause Samples
Main Study. The goal of the main study is to assess how participants rate IDM Harmony robot’s social intelligence, how it could change after it makes a social mistake, and how it could change again after it uses one of our designed recovery strategies.
Main Study. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a within-participants online audio study, using a 3 (SFU database) x 5 (emotion category) setup. Participants categorised emotions, listening to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-selected audio stimuli along with additions from the third database (ROBOGIB). We explored the influence of age, gender, prior robot exposure, emotion category (including anger, sadness, disgust, fear, and surprise), SFU database (EMOGIB, ROBOGIB, BEST), and the perceived human-likeness of the sounds on participants' emotion categorization accuracy. Additionally, we also asked participants to rate the match between each SFU database and the Harmony robot based on its appearance, role (healthcare delivery robot), and environment (hospital).
Main Study. To inform the design of different movement behaviours the Harmony robot can employ when it makes a social error, we set up six sessions where different performers from different performative art backgrounds performed as the IDM Harmony robot or as hospital users (visitors or staff). When we looked at the videos for this study, we looked at the errors the participants made when they were acting as the IDM Robot, the response from the participants acting as the users around it, and again at the response of the participants acting as the IDM robot to the users.
5.5.1 Robot Performers’ Error Behaviours