Abstract
In our daily life everything and everyone occupies an amount of space, simply by “being there‿. Edward Hall coined the term proxemics for the studies of man’s use of this space. This paper presents a study on proxemics in Human-Robot Interaction and particularly on robot’s approaching groups of people. As social psychology research found proxemics to be culturally dependent, we focus on the question of the appropriateness of the robot’s approach behavior in different cultures. We present an online survey (N=181) that was distributed in three countries; China, the U.S. and Argentina. Our results show that participants prefer a robot that stays out of people’s intimate space zone just like a human would be expected to do. With respect to cultural differences, Chinese participants showed high-contact responses and believed closer approaches were appropriate compared to their U.S. counterparts. Argentinian participants more closely resembled the ratings of the U.S. participants.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Collaboration across boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology (CABS 2014) |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 121-130 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-2557-8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Aug 2014 |
Event | 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology, CABS 2014 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 21 Aug 2014 → 22 Aug 2014 Conference number: 5 |
Conference
Conference | 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology, CABS 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | CABBS |
Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Kyoto |
Period | 21/08/14 → 22/08/14 |
Keywords
- HMI-HF: Human Factors
- Cross-cultural survey
- Proximity
- EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/2007-2013
- Human robot interaction
- Social robotics
- Online survey
- Social interaction
- EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/600877