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Jun 19

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2010
 
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Niculescu, Andreea, Dijk, Betsy van, Nijholt, Anton, Swee, See Lan and Li, Haizhou (2010): How humans behave and evaluate a social robot in real-environment settings. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2010. pp. 351-352.

“Behavioral analysis has proven to be an important method to study human-robot interaction in real-life environments providing highly relevant insights for developing new theoretical and practical models of appropriate social robot design. In this paper we describe our approach to study human-robot interaction by combining human behavioral analysis with robot evaluation results. The approach is exemplified by a case study performed with a social robot receptionist in real-life settings. Our preliminary results are encouraging, as many behavior categories could be successfully related to certain evaluation patterns. With our analysis we hope to add a useful contribution to social-robotic design concerning user modeling issues and evaluation predictions.”

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Niculescu, Andreea, White, George M., Lan, See Swee, Waloejo, Ratna Utari and Kawaguchi, Yoko (2008): Impact of English regional accents on user acceptance of voice user interfaces. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2008. pp. 523-526.

“In this paper we present an experiment addressing a critical issue in Voice User Interface (VUI) design, namely whether the user acceptance can be improved by having recorded voice prompts imitate his/her regional dialect. The claim was tested within a project aiming to develop voice animated virtual help desk assistants for intelligent mobile phone interfaces. 64 subjects native Singaporeans participated in the experiment, ranking speech quality, politeness, dialogue easiness and trustworthiness for two virtual help desk assistants: one speaking with Singaporean accent, the other one speaking with British accent. Contrary to our expectation and despite the identical content of the information presented the British accented assistant was in all categories higher ranked than its Singaporean counterpart. This result is explained by other cultural and psychological biases that dominate the expected effect of common ethnic background. We concluded that subjective preference for a voice accent obviously affects users perception of other system features but design stereotypes like "similarity attracts" are rather context dependent.”

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Niculescu, Andreea (2008): Affordances in Conversational Interactions with Multimodal QA Systems. In: Holzinger, Andreas (ed.) USAB 2008 - 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society November 20-21, 2008, Graz, Austria. pp. 221-236.

 
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“ ... there are no simple 'right' answers for most web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ”

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