van Maris, A., Dogramadzi, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-0009-7522, Zook, N. et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Speech related accessibility issues in social robots. In: Belpaeme, T. and Young, J., (eds.) HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 24-26 Mar 2020, Cambridge, UK. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , pp. 505-507. ISBN 9781450370578
Abstract
This work describes an incidental finding from a longitudinal Human-Robot Interaction study that was investigating whether a robot showing emotions during interactions with older adults was perceived differently than to a robot that did not display emotions during the interaction. During this study we noted that some older adults found it hard to understand what the robot was saying, regardless of the volume of speech generated by the robot. The fact that they did not have problems in understanding the researcher led us to investigating this accessibility-related issue in more depth. This paper describes the implications of this finding and recommendations on how to approach future work.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. |
Keywords: | accessibility; social robot; older adults; human-robot interaction |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2020 13:51 |
Last Modified: | 18 May 2020 13:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3371382.3378379 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160867 |