Title
The Sound or Silence: Investigating the Influence of Robot Noise on Proxemics
Date Issued
06 November 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Trovato G.
Balvin J.
Thomsen N.B.
Bech S.
Tan Z.H.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In the design of robots that have to share spaces with humans, design plays an important role in the acceptance, and sound is one further aspect that should not be neglected, in order to facilitate interaction and minimise repulsion. Following a previous research in which an uncomfortable noise from a robot was identified, we present an interaction study in which the same noise was tested in order to measure the effect on proxemics, as opposed to a silent condition and to a different version of the sound, masked with ambient music. The results obtained with the participation of 60 subjects show the effectiveness of the mask in avoiding the negative effect of the noise.
Start page
713
End page
718
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Diseño industrial y otros diseños
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85058082003
ISBN of the container
978-153867980-7
Conference
RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
Sources of information:
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